James Hart (physician)
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James Hart (fl. 1633; d. 1639) was an English physician and medical writer. He studied at Paris and in Germany; graduated abroad; and practised at Northampton. He published Anatomie of Urines (1625), and Kλινική, or the Diet of the Diseased (1633).
James Hart was born probably between 1580 and 1590, and, though his pedigree cannot be traced, most likely in Northamptonshire. In 1607 and 1608, or perhaps longer, he studied in Paris, and travelled in other parts of France. He afterwards lived at Meissen in Saxony; in 1610 was travelling in Bohemia, and went probably later to Basle to complete his studies. Either at Basle or elsewhere on the continent he took the degree of MD and about 1612 settled as a physician probably from the first at Northampton, where he lived at least twenty or thirty years, and apparently succeeded in practice. He never belonged to the College of Physicians (though that body licensed his chief work in flattering terms) nor to the Company of Barber-Surgeons. He was a strong Puritan, an appellation which he adopts more than once in his writings.[1]
