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William Harvey (1 April 1578 – 3 June 1657) [1] was an English physician who made influential contributions to anatomy and physiology. [2] He was the first known physician to describe completely, and in detail, pulmonary and systemic circulation as well as the specific process of blood being pumped to the brain and the rest of the body by the heart (though earlier writers, such as Realdo ...
An experiment from Harvey's Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus. Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus (Latin, 'An Anatomical Exercise on the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Living Beings'), commonly called De Motu Cordis, is the best-known work of the physician William Harvey, which was first published in 1628 and established the ...
Image of veins by William Harvey. William Harvey, an early modern English physiologist, also agreed with Aristotle's cardiocentric view. He was the first to describe the basic operation of the circulatory system, by which blood was pumped by the heart to the rest of the body, in detail.
1927 William Hale-White, Bacon, Gilbert and Harvey; 1928 Sir Humphry Rolleston, Bt, Cardio-Vascular Diseases Since Harvey's Discovery [128] 1929 Wilmot Herringham, The England of Harvey [129] 1930 John Beresford Leathes, The Birth of Chemical Biology [130] 1931 Robert Hutchison, Harvey: The Man, his Method, and his Message for us today [131] [132]
William Harvey (1578–1657) — English physician, described the circulatory system; Henry Heimlich (1920–2016) — inventor of the Heimlich maneuver and the Vietnam War-era chest drain valve; Orvan Hess (1906–2002) — fetal heart monitor and first successful use of penicillin; Hippocrates (c. 460 –370 BCE) — Greek father of medicine
The modern history of hypertension begins with the understanding of the cardiovascular system based on the work of physician William Harvey (1578–1657), who described the circulation of blood in his book De motu cordis. The English clergyman Stephen Hales made the first published measurement of blood pressure in 1733.
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William Harvey visited Scotland in his role as physician to King Charles I in 1633 and 1641. [3] During the first visit, he was granted the Freedom of the City of Edinburgh and was made an honorary member of the Incorporation of Surgeons (which later became the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh).