It discuss about life history of William Harvey the great physician.It discuss about his education, married life, discoveries, before harvey, after harvey and harvey method. It also discuss about his publications, coat and honour.

1. William Harvey 1578 - 1657
DR. C. BEULAH JAYARANI
M.Sc., M.A, M.Ed, M.Phil (Edn), M.Phil (ZOO), NET, Ph.D (Edn)
ASST. PROFESSOR,
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2. liFe HiSTOry
Born in England , 1st April1578 Folkestone,
United Kingdom
English physician - learned Latin
Son of Governor Thomas Harvey & his Wife
Joan Halke
Studied at University of Pauda
Discovered circulation of blood
Disputed Galen’s theory on blood in body
Died in 3rd June 1657
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3. marrieD liFe
 Harvey married
Elizabeth Browne,
"daughter of Lancelot
Browne Dr. Physic" (a
medical doctor). They
had no children
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4. eDucaTiOn
 Attended Kings School in at Folkswtone
 Studied Art, medicine at Gonvillie and Caius
College
 Attained Physician training at Pauda , the
leading European Medical School
 Student of Fabrici and Cremonini
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5. DiScOverieS
 William Harvey made the momentous
medical discovery that the flow of blood
must be continuous and that its flow must
be in one direction only
 proved that the venous blood flowed to
the heart, and that the body's valves in
the veins maintained the one-way flow.
 He disprove Galen's theory that
the body made new blood as it
used up the old.
 He proved that the heart was a pump
which forced the blood around the body
through arteries and that the blood was
returned to the heart through the veins
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6. BeFOre Harvey
People believed in Galen’s theory
that blood was produced in the liver .
Galen believed that blood was burnt
up by the body .
Other writers had questioned this
theory but they had struggled to
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7. aFTer Harvey
Harvey proved that blood flows around
the body .
He stated that blood was carried away
from the heart by arteries and returns to
the heart through veins.
Harvey proved that the heart is a pump
that re-circulates the blood and that
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8. He taught how heart
functions
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10. Harvey’S meTHODS
Harvey was very scientific in this
methods. These included :
Dissecting cold blooded animals to
observe the movement of muscle
around the heart .
Dissected humans to gain knowledge
of the heart
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11. Used iron rods to
prove that blood
was pumped
through veins in one
direction
He accurately
calculated the
amount of blood in
the body.
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12. OTHer accOmpliSHmenTS
 Published all his theories in the heavy
criticized Exercitatio anatomica de motu
cordis et sanguinis in animalibus
 Waited 13 years after discovery to publish
his works because they disputed Galen,
no one had to dispute him before
 Was physician to both Kings James and
King Charles
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HOnOrary

14. HOnOurary
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15. puBlicaTiOnS
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18. REFERENCES
 TN TEXT BOOK
 NCERT READER
 DISCOVERY
 WIKIPEDIA
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