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Harvey’s Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals

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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.

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