Nathanael Heighmore

son of a Father of both his names, sometimes Rector of Candel-purse or Cundel-purse in Dorsetshire, was born ((*))((*)) Reg. Schol. & Soc. Coll. Trin. su [•] an. 1632. in the Parish of Fordingbridge in Hampshire, elected Scholar of Trin. Coll. in 1632, took the degrees in Arts, studied Physick, admitted Bach. of that fac. in 1641 and in the latter end of the next year was actually created Doctor thereof. Afterwards retiring into the Country, setled at length at Shirebourne in Dorsetshire; where and in the neighbourhood he became famous for the happy practice in his faculty, and for the great love that he expressed to the Clergy of those parts; from whom, as ’tis said, he never took a fee, tho much employed by that party. This person, whose memory is celebrated by divers authors, hath written,

Corporis humani disquisitio anatomica. Hag. Com. 1651. fol. To which he afterwards added an Appendix, but before he could perfect it to his mind, he died.

The History of generation; with a general relation of the manner of generation as well in plants, as Animals. Lond. 1651. oct.

Discourse of the cure of wounds by sympathy—Pr. with The Hist. of Gen.

De histerica passione & de affectione hypochondriaca; theses duae. Oxon. & Amstel. 1660. oct.

De histerica & hypochondrica passione responsio Epistolaris ad Doctorem Willis medicum Londinensem celeberrimum. Lond. 1670. qu. He also discovered a new Ductus in the Testicles, but whether published in a book by it self, I know not. He died on the 21. of March, 1684/5. in sixteen hundred eighty and four, and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Candel purse before mentioned, near the body, as I suppose, of his Father. Afterwards was laid a plain marble stone over his grave, with this inscription thereon. Positae sunt hic reliquiae viri admodum docti Nathanaelis Heighmore in Med. Doctoris; in spem resurrectionis ad vitam aeternam. Qui obiit Martii 21. An. Dom. 1684. Aetatis suae 71.