University, is present in Sloane's collection, as well as twenty-seven exercitationes on the circulation of the blood, supervised by Johannes Antonides van der Linden (1609-1664), presented between 1659 and 1664. Furthermore, scurvy, pleurisy, dropsy and dysentery seem to have been preferred subjects, especially during the first decades of the seventeenth century. Dissertations on these themes ...