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William Harvey, the oldest of seven children, was born in England at his house on April 1, 1578. In the year of 1597 at the age of twenty Harvey earned his degree in medicine at the University of Cambridge, soon after he traveled to Italy to further his studies in the medical field at the University of Padua which was one of the best medical schools in Europe where he studied under a great scientist and surgeon Hieronymus Fabricius. After garduating with honors from the Italian university he than went back to Cambridge to finish another degree.

After finishing his degree Harvey stayed in England where he settled down and married a woman named Elizebeth Browne, daughter of Lancelot Browne who was the Queen's physician. Harvey and Elizabethe went on to have no kids. He praticed as a physician in London where he became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and became King Charles I of England's personal doctor. After being appointed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital in the year 1643 he went back to Oxford and became doctor of physic at Merton College unitl 1656.

Havey had a great fascination with the blood and how it flowed through the body. He discovered the valves and veins inside the heart that restricted blood flow. Harvey, in 1628, went on to publish the book //An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals// that explained how blood was pumped from the heart through the body, than returned to the heart to be recirculated which Harvey knew because of his first hand experiences disecting human and animals given to him by his employer King Charles I. But like many others, Harvey could not find out why the heart beated. This idea went against Greco-Roman, Galen's that 1,400 years before beleieved that food was processed into blood by the liver to be consumed by the body. This new belief Harvey displayed to the world was not taken so well and Harvey lost many patients at the cost of later being the corner stone to modern research on the heart and blood vessels. Harvey also experimented with chick embryos and noted that fetal circulation short circuits the lungs because the lungs were collapsed and inactive and later went on to publish a book in 1651 called //Essays on the Generation of Animals// and which is now the basis of modern embyology.

Harvey died of a stroke on June 3, 1657 and was regarded as being a medical genius throughout Europe.

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William Harvey, the oldest of seven children, was born in England at his house on April 1, 1578. In the year 1597 at the age of twenty Harvey earned his degree in medicine at the University of Cambridge, soon after he traveled to Italy to further his studies in the medical field at the University of Padua which was one of the best medical schools in Europe where he studies under a great scientist and surgeon Hiernymus Fabricius. After gradutaing with honors from the Italian university he than went back to Cambridge to finish another degree.

After finishinghis degree Harvey stayed in England where he settled down and married a woman named Elizabeth Browne, daughter of Lancelot Browne who was the Queen's physician. Harvey and Elizabeth went on to have no kids. He practiced as a physician in London where he became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and became King Charles I of England's personal doctor. after being appointed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital in the year 1643 he went back to Oxford and became doctor of physic at MertonCollege until 1656.

Harvey had a great fascination with the blood and how it flowed through the body. he discovered the valves and veins inside the heart that restricted blood flow. Harvey, in 1628, went on to publish the book //An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals// that explained how blood was pumped from the heart though the body, than returned to the heart to be recirculated which Harvey knew because of his first hand experiences disecting human and animals given to him by his employer King Charles I. But like many others, Harvey could not explain why the heart beated. This idea went a against Greco- Roman, Galen's that 1,400 years befroe believed that food was processed into blod by the live to be consumed by the body. This new belief Harvey diplayed to the world was not taken so well and Harvey last many patienrs at the cost of later being the corner stone of madern research on the heart and blood vessels. harvey also experimentes with chick embryos and noted that fetal circualtion short circuits the lungs because the lungs were collapsed and inactive and later went on to publish a book in 1651 called //Essays on the Generation of Animals// and which is now the basis of modern embryology.

Harvey died of a stroke on June 3, 1657 and was regarded as being a medical genius to the poeple throughout Europe.