William Harvey Facts
William Harvey Facts
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| William Harvey was born in Folkestone, England, where his father was a judge who served the office of mayor. |
| William Harvey entered King's School in 1585. |
| He transferred to Gonville and Caius College in 1593. |
| In 1597 he earned his BA from Caius College. |
| In 1599 he began to study medicine at the University of Padua in Italy. |
| Harvey earned his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Padua on April 25, 1602. |
| He returned to England and earned a second MD from the Cambridge University. |
| In 1604 he joined the College of Physicians. |
| On October 14, 1609 he was promoted to Physician in Charge at St Bartholomew's Hospital. |
| He accepted the position of Lumleian lecturer in 1615. |
| He would give lectures on anatomy throughout England for a period of seven years. |
| In April 1616 he started the lecture series and his notes are preserved in the British Museum. |
| While serving at St Bartholomew's and as Lumleian lecturer he became Physician Extraordinary to King James I in 1618. |
| In 1628 he published De Motu Cordis (On the Motion of the Heart and Blood) which described blood circulation. |
| The book was published in Frankfurt, Germany because Harvey knew it would gain wide distribution. |
| Harvey's theories of blood circulation drew considerable criticism in the medical community. |
| Harvey was skeptical of allegations of witchcraft and in 1634 he was an examiner of four women accused of it. |
| Thanks to his report, all were acquitted of the charges. |
| From 1630 to 1632 he traveled Europe with the Duke of Lennox. |
| In 1642 he was made Doctor of Physic and in 1645 became Warden of Merton College. |
| In 1651 he published Exercitationes de generatione animalium in which he made the first strong statement against spontaneous generation. |
| He stated that all life comes from an egg or ovum. |
| Harvey made observations important to the future of embryology. |
| He died in 1657 of an apparent stroke. |
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