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William Harvey
William Harvey was an English physician, the first known to describe completely and in detail the circulation of the blood, pumped by the heart through the lungs and around the body. Taught at Padua by Fabricius, he served St Bartholomew's Hospital in London from 1609 and was physician to James I and Charles I. His De Motu Cordis, published at Frankfurt in 1628, combined experiments with a calculation: if Galen were right, the liver would have to make 498 pounds of blood a day. The theory took twenty years to win general acceptance.
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