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Jean Baptiste van Helmont, Oriatrike or Physick Refined ... faithfully rendered into English by J. C., London, 1662, and Ortus Medicinae, Editio Quarta, Lugduni, 1667.

Giovanni Battista della Porta, Natural Magick, London, 1658, reprinted New York, 1957, and Magiae Naturalis Libri Viginti, Rothomagi, 1650.

Richard F. Jones, Ancients and Moderns: A Study of the Rise of the Scientific Movement in Seventeenth-Century England, 2nd ed., St. Louis, 1961; Richard S. Westfall, Science and Religion in Seventeenth-Century England, New Haven, 1958; Marjorie Hope Nicolson, Pepys' Diary and the New Science, Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, 1965; Walter E. Houghton, "The English Virtuoso in the Seventeenth Century," Journal of the History of Ideas, III (1942), 51-73, 190-219; and Dorothy Stimson, Scientists and Amateurs: A History of the Royal Society, New York, 1948. See also, for an entertaining primary source, Thomas Shadwell, The Virtuoso, ed., Marjorie Hope Nicolson and David Stuart Rodes, London, 1966.

Sir George Clark, A History of the Royal College of Physicians of London, Oxford, Volume I, 1964, Volume II, 1966.

Boyle, "Memoirs for the Natural History of Human Blood," Works, IV, 637.

Boyle, "On the Usefulness of Natural Philosophy," Works, II, 169.

Stephen Paget, John Hunter, London, 1897, p. 126.

Riverius, Opera, trans. Lester S. King, p. 1.

Boyle, "Usefulness," pp. 74-75. See also pp. 115-116.

Ibid., p. 87.

Ibid., p. 97.

Ibid., p. 98. See also "Of the Reconcileableness of Specific Medicines to the Corpuscular Philosophy," Works, V, 85-86.

Lester S. King, "The Road to Scientific Therapy: 'Signatures,' 'Sympathy,' and Controlled Experiment," Journal of the American Medical Association, CXCVII (1966), 250-256.

Boyle, "Usefulness," p. 115.

Ibid., p. 127.

Ibid., p. 130.

Ibid., p. 131.

Van Helmont, "Butler," Ortus Medicinae, pp. 358-365, and Oriatrike, pp. 585-596. See also Boyle, "Usefulness," p. 102.

Van Helmont, Ortus, p. 365; Oriatrike, p. 596.

Boyle, "Usefulness," pp. 135-136.

Ibid., p. 138.

Ibid., p. 144.

Boyle, "Reconcileableness of Specific Medicines," pp. 80-81.

Boyle, "Usefulness," p. 183.

Ibid., p. 190.

Ibid., p. 194.

Ibid., p. 195.

Westfall, op. cit.

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