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Roger Drake (1608 1669) was an English physician, and a minister of strong Presbyterian convictions. He was the eldest son of Roger Drake, a wealthy mercer of Cheapside, who died in December 1651. He received his education at Pembroke College, Cambridge, as a member of which he graduated B.A. in 1628, and M.A. in 1631. At thirty years of age he entered himself as a medical student at Leyden in 1638 and attended the lectures of Adolph Vorstius, Otto Heurnius, and Waleus. He proceeded doctor of medicine there in 1639. In his inaugural dissertation he defended William Harvey's theory of the…mehr

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Roger Drake (1608 1669) was an English physician, and a minister of strong Presbyterian convictions. He was the eldest son of Roger Drake, a wealthy mercer of Cheapside, who died in December 1651. He received his education at Pembroke College, Cambridge, as a member of which he graduated B.A. in 1628, and M.A. in 1631. At thirty years of age he entered himself as a medical student at Leyden in 1638 and attended the lectures of Adolph Vorstius, Otto Heurnius, and Waleus. He proceeded doctor of medicine there in 1639. In his inaugural dissertation he defended William Harvey's theory of the circulation of the blood, and was subjected to an attack by Dr. James Primrose the following year; Drake replied.