succeeded by his son, Gideon Harvey the younger [see below].
Harvey was a man of some education and a copious writer, but his works have no scientific value, and are disfigured by personalities as well as by undignified attempts to gain popularity. In a book on the venereal disease, for instance, he adopts the discreditable artifice of promising a secret cure, which he does not divulge, superior to those mentioned in the book. His only service to medicine was that of ridiculing certain old-world preparations, theriaca, mithridatium, &c., traditionally preserved in the ‘London Pharmacopœia,’ but omitted in the next century. On the other hand he was a determined opponent of Peruvian bark. One of his works, a collection of random criticisms on medical practice, with an ironical title, ‘The Art of Curing Diseases by Expectation,’ acquired some reputation on the continent, through the patronage of a far greater man, George Ernest Stahl, who published a Latin version with long notes of his own, imbued with a kindred scepticism, and in this form it provoked some controversy. Late in life Harvey published a recantation of some of his earlier doctrines, under the title of ‘The Vanities of Philosophy and Physick,’ a profession of general scepticism mingled with new hypotheses.
Harvey's works have, however, the merit of a lively and witty style, though the humour is often very rough. They reflect light on medical customs and persons of the time, and thus have some historical value. His portrait was engraved by Pierre Philippe in 1663 for his ‘Archelogia,’ and appears in a smaller form by A. Hertocks in ‘Morbus Anglicus’ and other works. He is represented as a handsome young man with a look of much self-sufficiency.
Harvey's writings, all issued in London, were: 1. ‘Archelogia Philosophica Nova, or New Principles of Philosophy containing Philosophy in General, Metaphysicks,’ &c., 4to, 1663 (with portrait). 2. ‘Discourse of the Plague,’ 4to, 1665; 2nd edit. 8vo, 1673, with the following: 3. ‘Morbus Anglicus, or the Anatomy of Consumptions,’ 8vo, 1666; 2nd edit. 1672. 4. ‘The Accomplisht Physician, the honest Apothecary, and the skilful Chyrurgeon,’ 4to, 1670 (anonymous, but undoubtedly Harvey's, though commonly ascribed to Christopher Merrett). 5. ‘Little Venus Unmasked,’ 12mo, 1671. 6. ‘Great Venus Unmasked, or a more Exact Discovery of the Venereal Evil,’ 8vo, 1672 (the two latter appeared in several editions with different titles). 7. ‘De Febribus Tractatus Theoreticus et Practicus,’ 8vo, 1672; English by J. T., 1674. 8. ‘The Disease of London, or a new Discovery of the Scorvey,’ 8vo, 1675. 9. ‘The Family Physician and House-apothecary,’ 12mo, 1676; 2nd edit. 1678. 10. ‘Casus Medico-Chirurgicus, or a most Memorable Case of a Nobleman deceased,’ 8vo, 1678. 11. ‘The Conclave of Physicians, also a peculiar Discourse of the Jesuit's bark,’ 12mo, 1683; 2nd edit. 1686. 12. ‘Discourse of the Small Pox and Malignant Fevers, with an exact Discovery of the Scorvey,’ 12mo, 1685. 13. ‘The Art of Curing Diseases by Expectation,’ 12mo, 1689; Latin, London, 1694; also edited by Stahl, ‘Ars Sanandi cum Expectatione,’ Offenbach, 1730; Paris, 1730. 14. ‘Treatise of the Small Pox and Measles,’ 12mo, 1696. 15. ‘Particular Discourse on Opium,’ &c., 8vo, 1696. 16. ‘The Vanities of Philosophy and Physick,’ 8vo, 1699; 3rd edit. 1702.
Harvey, Gideon, the younger (1669?–1754), physician, son of the elder Gideon Harvey, born apparently in London, is mentioned by his father in his ‘Art of Curing Diseases by Expectation’ (p. 224) as a student at Leyden, where he entered on the philosophy line, 12 May 1688. He graduated M.D. of that university in 1690, with a dissertation ‘De Febre Ardente.’ In 1698 he was created by royal letters doctor of medicine of Cambridge, as a member of Catharine Hall. He was admitted candidate of the College of Physicians of London, 3 April 1699, and fellow 22 March 1702–3, and held offices in the college. About 1700–2 he was appointed the king's physician to the Tower, as it would seem in succession to his father. He died in 1754 or the following year, being then the oldest fellow of the college. He does not appear to have published anything.
[Wood's Athenæ Oxon. ii. 957, ed. 1721; Peacock's English-speaking Students at Leyden (Index Society), 1883, p. 47; Harvey's Works; Munk's Coll. of Phys. ii. 10 (1878).]
HARVEY or HERVEY, HENRY, LL.D. (d. 1585), master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, was son of Robert Harvey of Stradbroke, Suffolk, and Joan, his wife. He was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he took the degree of LL.B. in 1538, and of LL.D. in 1542. On 27 Jan. 1549–1550 he was admitted an advocate at Doctors' Commons. He gained much reputation as an ecclesiastical lawyer, and was appointed vicar-general of his diocese by Ridley, bishop of London, and subsequently vicar-general of the province of Canterbury. His principles were pliable in matters of religion, and he found little difficulty in retaining his preferments by adapting himself to each suc-
