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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 ...
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
William Harvey (1578–1657), ... (1888–1972), founder of the cardiology department at the Mayo Clinic and an early pioneer of electrocardiography;
In 1979 the new William Harvey Hospital opened in Ashford (ironically, named after Folkestone's William Harvey), and many other services were transferred here over the following years. [2] [3] The accident and emergency department at Royal Victoria Hospital was closed at that time, leaving it with a minor injuries service. [4]
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).
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The Charterhouse Square campus is also the home of the William Harvey Research Institute, focusing on pharmacology, and houses student residences. Some additional teaching, including anatomy and dissection, takes place at the main QMUL campus in Mile End. [17]