William harvey death

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Abstract

This article continues the analyses in Medical History 52 (2008), 73–90, 365–86 of William Harvey’s self-understanding as the philosopher and discoverer of the blood’s circulation. Harvey brilliantly and subversively assumed the persona of the mythological Hercules to embody his own anatomical labour in De motu cordis et sanguinis (1628). He reprised the role in self-defence against accusations in the College of Physicians, London, of his breach of faith with medical tradition. Harvey sought to usurp the medical epithet ‘a second Hercules’ by reforming humanist dependence on ancient texts as authoritative medicine. A knowledge of the theory and practice of Renaissance humanism discloses his identification with the Herculean labour of cleansing the Augean stable. He employed anatomical demonstration against Galen’s porous cardiac septum, which admitted blood across the ventricles. Harvey’s oath mehercule swore against Galen’s Dia to assert the necessity of opening an alternate route for the blood flow. His Herculean labour was to dam the cardiac septum and divert

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William Harvey facts for kids

Quick facts for kids William Harvey
Portrait attributed to Daniël Mijtens, c. 1627
Born	April 1, 1578 Folkestone, Kent, England
Died	June 3, 1657(1657-06-03) (aged 79) Roehampton, London, England
Education	Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University of Padua (M.D., 1602)
Known for	De Motu Cordis, 1628 (translated as Anatomical Account of the Circulation of the Heart and Blood in 1928) on systemic circulation
Scientific career
Fields	Medicine Anatomy
Doctoral advisor	Hieronymus Fabricius
Influenced	René Descartes
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William Harvey (April 1, 1578 – June 3, 1657) was an Englishphysician who made discoveries in anatomy and physiology. He was the first known physician to describe completely, and in detail, how blood is pumped to the brain and the rest of the body by the heart.

Early Life and Education

William was the oldest of nine children, seven sons and two daughters, of Thomas and his wife Joan Halke. William's father, Thomas Harvey, served as the mayor of Folkestone.

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Scientist of the Day - William Harvey

Portrait of William Harvey, oil on canvas, after Peter Lely, before 1680, Wellcome Collection, London (wellcomecollection.org)

William Harvey, an English physician, died on June 3, 1657, at the age of 79. Because he was born on April 1, his birthday never gets celebrated in these parts, as we are engaged in more frivolous pursuits on that day, and it is high time we corrected that omission, as Harvey made perhaps the single greatest contribution ever to our understanding of human physiology.

Harvey was born in Folkestone, Kent, studied at Caius College, Cambridge, and then attended the University of Padua, where the great Vesalius had once taught, receiving his medical degree in 1602. His immediate teacher was Girolamo Fabrici d'Acquapendente, who was working on a study of the valves in the veins while Harvey was there. Harvey then returned to England, joined the Royal College of Physicians, and gradually moved up the pecking order, obtaining a position as physician at St. Batholomew's Hospital in London in 1609, becoming