William Harvey

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William Harvey (1 April 1578 – 3 June 1657), an English physician who made important contributions to anatomy and physiology, was born in England.

He was the first recognized physician to fully describe the systemic circulation and biochemical characteristics of blood pumped to the brain and body by the heart, though earlier writers, including Realdo Colombo, Michael Servetus, and Jacques Dubois, had detailed accounts of the theory.

The William Harvey Hospital was built in Ashford, a few miles from his birthplace of Folkestone, in 1973.

Early life and the University of Padua

Harvey's first education was carried out in Folkestone, where he learned Latin. He then began attending King's School (Canterbury). Harvey attended King's School for five years, after which he matriculated at Gonville and Caius College in Cambridge in 1593.

Harvey graduated from Caius University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1597. He then travelled from France and Germany to Italy, where he entered the University of Padua in 1599.

During Harvey's years of study there, he formed a friendship with Fabricius and read Fabricius' De Venarum Ostiolis.

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Harvey graduated from Padua and returned to England, where he earned the Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Cambridge the following year, as well as a fellow of Gonville and Caius College. Harvey arrived in London, joining the Royal College of Physicians on October 5th, 1604.

Harvey married Elizabeth Browne, the "daughter of Lancelot Browne Dr. Physic" (a medical doctor), a few weeks after his admission. They had no children at the time.

On June 5, Harvey was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, earning him the Post-nominal letters FRCP. He then accepted a job at St Bartholomew's Hospital that he was to work for for the majority of his life. Dr. Wilkinson, the apothecary's son, was born on October 14th, which enjoined him to "deaver yourself to do the best of your knowledge in the field of physics. You may not want to say anything for the poor at any time of the week, but don't expect the apothecary without regard or admiration. And you will get no reward or praise for your advice... "You will do what you say before God, and I will promise to do as you answer before God."

Harvey lived in a tiny house in Ludgate for a year, but two houses in West Smithfield were attached as fringe benefits to the position of Physician. At this point, the physician's job consisted of a simple but thorough review of patients admitted to the hospital once a week and the subsequent prescription of prescriptions.

Harvey's life began in 1615 when he was appointed to the Lumleian lecturer's office on August 4th. For a period of seven years, the Lumley lectureship, which was established by Lord Lumley and Dr. Richard Caldwell in 1582, consisted of lectures with the intention of "spreading light" and broadening the general knowledge of anatomy in England.

In April 1616, Harvey began his lectures. "A man of lowest stature, round faced," he was described as "a man of little complexion, dark, and full of spirit; his hair was black as a raven and curling." The notes, which he used at the time, are on display in the British Museum.

Harvey laid down the canons for his instruction at the start of his lectures:

Harvey continued to attend the Lumley lectures while also caring for his patients at St Bartholomew's Hospital; he thus established an important and lucrative activity, which culminated with his appointment as 'Physician Extraordinary' to King James I on February 3rd. He seems to have served many aristocrats, including Lord Chancellor Bacon. Bacon did not succeed in impressing the more practical-minded Harvey, who refused to regard him as a great philosopher. "He writes philosophy like a Lord Chancellor," he said of him.

The De Motu Cordis, De Motu Cordis' completed treatise on the blood circulation in Frankfurt in 1628. Harvey "fell deeply in his practice" after other physicians' comments, but he continued improving his career. He was re-elected 'Censor' of the College of Physicians in 1629, the first time since 1613 and the second time in 1625. Harvey was later elected Treasurer of the College.

Harvey was a vocal protester of witchcraft charges. He was one of four women from Lancashire convicted of witchcraft in 1634, and as a result of his investigation, all of them were cleared. When traveling with the King to Newmarket in 1632, he was sent to look at a woman suspected of being a witch. He told her that he was a wizard and wanted to talk about the Craft with her and asked if she was familiar. She brought a saucer of milk and called to a toad who came out and drank the milk. He sent her out to buy some ale, killed the toad, and dissected it, concluding that it was a perfectly normal animal and not supernatural in any way. When the woman returned, she was clearly angry and distraught, but Harvey then silenced her by claiming that she was the King's Physician, who was sent to find if she was a witch and if she were not, she would have her apprehended.

Harvey was given permission by the queen to accompany the Duke of Lennox on his travel around the world at the age of fifty-two. Harvey's return from Padua was the first after Harvey's return from Padua, and the Mantuan War and Plague took him through France and Spain. On this trip, he wrote to Viscount Dorchester: he wrote to him.

Having returned to England in 1632, he returned to England in 1632. Harvey accompanied King Charles I in Ordinary wherever he went.'Physician in Ordinary' is a spelling of Latin.' Harvey, in particular, acquired many deer carcasses; it was on those deer carcasses that Harvey made many observations and developed his theories. As a Jesuit visitor at the English College in Rome in October 1636, Harvey returned to Italy in October 1636. It's likely that he met Galileo while en route to Florence.

A mob of citizen-soldiers opposed to the King invaded Harvey's lodgings, looted his possessions, and scattered his papers during the English Civil War. "The papers were based on "the records of a substantial number of dissections... of diseased bodies, including his observations on insect evolution," they were based on a series of comparative anatomy. Harvey maintained his position, supported the wounded on several occasions, and shielded the King's children during the Battle of Edgehill.

King Charles escorted to Oxford, where the physician was named "Doctor of Physic" in 1642 and later Warden of Merton College in 1645. "Harvey (Harvey) returned to his normal pursuits in Oxford, unaware of the clatter of arms and the constant marching and retaliation around him, for the city remained the city's base of operations until its reversal.

Harvey's gradual retirement from public life and careers began in 1645 with the abandonment of Oxford. Harvey, who is now sixty-eight years old and childless, had lost three brothers and his wife by this time. He returned to London and spent time with his brothers Eliab and Daniel. He spent the majority of his time reading general literature after being recalled from St Bartholomew's Hospital and several other responsibilities. Several attempts to reclaim control of Harvey are underway, but here is an excerpt from one of Harvey's responses:

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He'll spread his material goods and wealth among his extended family members, as well as leaving a substantial amount of money to the Royal College of Physicians.

Harvey was buried in Hempstead, northern Essex, in St. Andrew's Church. Harvey was buried in the 'Harvey Chapel' built by Eliab on Friday, leading to his burial procession. Harvey's funeral arrangements are also known: "Harvey was laid in the chapel between his two nieces' bodies, and like them, he was lapt in lead, coffin less." Harvey's remains were reinterred on St. Luke's Day, 1888, the leaden case was stolen from the vault by eight Fellows of the College of Physicians and deposited in a sarcophagus containing his works and an inscription.

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