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Excerpt from Medico-Physical Works: Being a Translation of Tractatus Quinque Medico-Physici "John Mayow, descended from a genteel family of his name, living at Bree, in Cornwall, was born in the parish of St Dunstan's in the West, in Fleet Street, London," in May 1643. His father's name was William and his mother's Elizabeth. He was received as a commoner of Wadham College, Oxford, on 3rd April 1658, and admitted a scholar on 23rd September 1659. Upon the recommendation of Henry Coventry, one of the Secretaries of State and a former fellow of the college, he was elected to a fellowship at All Souls' College on 3rd November 1660. He graduated B.C.L. on 30th May 1665 and D.C.L. on 5th July 1670. He also "studied physic, and became noted for his practice therein, especially in the summer time, in the dty of Bath." He died "in an apothecary's house, bearing the sign of the Anchor, in York Street, near Covent Garden, within the liberty of Westminster... in the month of September 1679, and was buried in the Church of St Paul, Covent Garden." These particulars, derived from Wood's Athena Oxonienses, 1722, and the notice by Hartog in the Dictionary of National Biography, convey practically all we have been able to find as to the personal history of Mayow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.