William Harvey - The Heart

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William Harvey -The Heart                                         

William Harvey was born April 1, 1578, Folkestone, Kent, England and died in June 3, 1657, London.

William Harvey was an English  and discoverer of the true nature of the  of the  and of the function of the heart as a pump. Functional knowledge of the heart and the circulation had remained almost at a standstill ever since the time of the Greco-Roman physician Galen - 1,400 years earlier. He studied medicine and later became a lecturer in anatomy. He was determined to find out or discover a breakthrough about how the heart and blood worked in the body.

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Circulation of the blood was first discovered by William Harvey. He was fascinated by how the blood moved around people’s bodies. In those days people thought that food was changed into blood by the process of the liver and then was consumed as fuel in the body.

 Galen the Greco-Roman physician put a theory forward that blood was moved from the heart to all the different parts of the body, where then it was used up. Harvey wasn’t too sure of this and begun to suspect that, that was not what happens, and that the blood does not get ...

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