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Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men.

Good God! how should the mitral valves prevent the regurgitation of air and not of blood?

On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals

The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the s...

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An Anatomical Disquisition on the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals

I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of ...

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William Harvey

Physician

Born: 1578-04-01

Died: 1657-06-03

William Harvey (April 1 1578 – June 3 1657) was an English physician. He was the first to describe completely and in detail the systemic circulation and properties of blood being pumped to the brain and body by the heart.More