MARVODIA - AN ACCOUNT OF THE LAST ILLNESS OF JAMES I AND OF THE POST-MORTEM EXAMINATION; NOTES ON THE MARWOODS
MARVODIA BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE LAST ILLNESS OF JAMES I AND OF THE POST-MORTEM EXAMINATION OF HIS BODY, FROM A MS. LONG IN THE POSSESSION OF THE MARWOODS OF HONITON; TO WHICH ARE APPENDED SOME NOTES IN ILLUSTRATION OF THE MARWOODS AND OF THEIR DESCENDANTS. By WILLIAM MUNK , M.D., F.S.A., Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London. to which, in 2021, a rough English translation of the Latin text has been added The following account of the last illness of James I, and of the post-mortem examination of his body, is now printed, and for the first time, from a MS. which was long in the possession of the Marwoods of Honiton, co. Devon, and jealously preserved by them and their descendants among the family archives. The Marwoods were an Æsculapian family, that gave not fewer than five physicians to Honiton and its immediate neighbourhood. Of these, one — Thomas Marwood, the founder of the family — was so renowned, that he was summoned from Honiton to L...