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Harvey's Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
An illustration from Harvey's 'Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals' illustrating an experiment to show how blood is pumped around the body and that the valves in the veins will only allow the blood to flow in one direction. This disproved Galen who had said the liver created fresh blood.
- Date created - 1673
- Author - Harvey, William
The Anatomical Exercises of Dr William Harvey concerning the motion of the Heart and Blood
Chapter III: What manner of motion the Arteries have in dissection of living creatures. In this Chapter, Harvey describes how the arteries ensure that the blood is pumped around the body in one direction.
- Date created - 1673
- Author - Harvey, William
The Anatomical Exercises of Dr William Harvey concerning the motion of the Heart and Blood
Harvey included a letter of dedication to Charles I, King of England in his book The Anatomical Exercises of Willian Harvey concerning the motion of the Heart and Blood, showing the importance of royal patronage in developing new medical theories. Despite being physician to both James I and Charles I many doctors refused to believe Harvey's work and instead clung on to the belief that Galen was correct.
- Date created - 1673
- Author - Harvey, William
The Anatomical Exercises of Dr William Harvey concerning the motion of the Heart and Blood
Title page of William Harvey's 'The Anatomical Exercises of Dr William Harvey concerning the motion of the Heart and Blood'. Along with his book entitled On the Motion of the Heart' he challenged the work of Galen. Through close observation and working on cold blooded amphibians he could see that blood was pumped around the body by the heart in one direction controlled by valves. He proved Galen's argument that the liver made blood to be incorrect and proved instead that the heart was at the centre of the body.
- Date created - 1673
- Author - Harvey, William