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A most certaine and true relation of a strange monster or serpent found in the left ventricle of the heart of Iohn Pennant, Gentleman, of the age of 21. yeares. By Edward May Doctor of Philosophy and Physick, and professor elect of them, in the colledge of the academy of noble-men, called the Musæum Minervæ: physitian also extraordinary unto her most Sacred Majesty, Queene of great Brittany, &c.
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- A most certaine and true relation of a strange monster or serpent found in the left ventricle of the heart of Iohn Pennant, Gentleman, of the age of 21. yeares. By Edward May Doctor of Philosophy and Physick, and professor elect of them, in the colledge of the academy of noble-men, called the Musæum Minervæ: physitian also extraordinary unto her most Sacred Majesty, Queene of great Brittany, &c.
- Author
- May, Edward.
- Publication
- London :: Printed by George Miller,
- MDCXXXIX. [1639]
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- Subject terms
- Medical parasitology -- Early works to 1800.
- Heart -- Foreign bodies -- Early works to 1800.
- Helminths -- Early works to 1800.
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"A most certaine and true relation of a strange monster or serpent found in the left ventricle of the heart of Iohn Pennant, Gentleman, of the age of 21. yeares. By Edward May Doctor of Philosophy and Physick, and professor elect of them, in the colledge of the academy of noble-men, called the Musæum Minervæ: physitian also extraordinary unto her most Sacred Majesty, Queene of great Brittany, &c." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A07320.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 17, 2024.
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[illustration] depiction of parasitic worm
That the 7. of October, this 1637 an Embrion of this forme and dimentions, as is here described was found in the left Ventricle of the heart of Iohn Pennant Gentleman, of the age of 21. yeares, or thereabouts, Wee who saw it testifie under our hands: