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William Harvey (1578 – 1657), the oldest son of Thomas Harvey, was born at Folkestone, Kent, England, on April 1, 1578. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and Cambridge University, where he received his B.A. at the age of nineteen. Having chosen medicine as his career, Harvey entered the University of Padua, where he studied under the famed anatomist Girolamo Fabrici (Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente) and his pupil Giulio Casserio.
Upon receiving his M.D. in 1602, Harvey returned to England, where he married the daughter of Dr. Lancelot Brown, former physician to Elizabeth I; he became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1607, physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital in 1609, and Lumleian lecturer at the College of Physicians. In 1616, Harvey began a series of lectures on the movement of the heart and blood.
Appointed physician extraordinary to King James I, Harvey maintained close professional ties to the royal family until the end of the Civil War. Under Charles I, Harvey was made warden of Merton College, Oxford, in 1645, but resigned a year later due to advancing age; thereupon he was offered the presidency of the College of Physicians. William Harvey died, in his eightieth year, on June 7, 1657.
Harvey's groundbreaking work, Exercitatio anatomica de mote cordis et sanguinis in animalibus (On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals), including explanations of heart valves and arterial pulse, was published in Latin in 1628. Despite increasing knowledge about blood circulation and the discovery of valves in the veins, the studies of physiology and anatomy in Harvey's day were still dominated by ancient Greek philosophy and medicine, notably Aristotle and Galen, who taught that in human beings and the higher animals, the blood was elaborated in the liver and sent to the heart, from where it circulated through the body. While the veins carried blood, the arteries carried both blood and a kind of vital air, or spirit (pneuma).
Harvey's work was revolutionary in that it relied extensively on minute observations of living animals as well as on a lengthy series of dissections, which gave Harvey a far more complete knowledge of the comparative anatomy of the heart and vessels than any of his contemporaries—a knowledge not to be equaled until the researches of the anatomists John Hunter and Johann Friedrich Meckel in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Although Harvey's discoveries were met with some reluctance at first, before his death his views were acknowledged and honored throughout Europe. On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals remains one of the greatest works of physiology.
William Harvey also wrote Exercitationes de generatione animalium (On Animal Reproduction) (1651).
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Upon receiving his M.D. in 1602, Harvey returned to England, where he married the daughter of Dr. Lancelot Brown, former physician to Elizabeth I; he became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1607, physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital in 1609, and Lumleian lecturer at the College of Physicians. In 1616, Harvey began a series of lectures on the movement of the heart and blood.
Appointed physician extraordinary to King James I, Harvey maintained close professional ties to the royal family until the end of the Civil War. Under Charles I, Harvey was made warden of Merton College, Oxford, in 1645, but resigned a year later due to advancing age; thereupon he was offered the presidency of the College of Physicians. William Harvey died, in his eightieth year, on June 7, 1657.
Harvey's groundbreaking work, Exercitatio anatomica de mote cordis et sanguinis in animalibus (On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals), including explanations of heart valves and arterial pulse, was published in Latin in 1628. Despite increasing knowledge about blood circulation and the discovery of valves in the veins, the studies of physiology and anatomy in Harvey's day were still dominated by ancient Greek philosophy and medicine, notably Aristotle and Galen, who taught that in human beings and the higher animals, the blood was elaborated in the liver and sent to the heart, from where it circulated through the body. While the veins carried blood, the arteries carried both blood and a kind of vital air, or spirit (pneuma).
Harvey's work was revolutionary in that it relied extensively on minute observations of living animals as well as on a lengthy series of dissections, which gave Harvey a far more complete knowledge of the comparative anatomy of the heart and vessels than any of his contemporaries—a knowledge not to be equaled until the researches of the anatomists John Hunter and Johann Friedrich Meckel in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Although Harvey's discoveries were met with some reluctance at first, before his death his views were acknowledged and honored throughout Europe. On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals remains one of the greatest works of physiology.
William Harvey also wrote Exercitationes de generatione animalium (On Animal Reproduction) (1651).
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