DR. William Harvey

DATE OF BIRTH AND DEATH

• Born: April 1, 1578
• Death: June 3, 1637
• Died at the age of 79

RELATIVES

• William Harvey was the son of Thomas Harvey, a jurat of Folkestone

CONTRIBUTIONS

• He developed the first complete theory of the circulation of blood,
• Harvey's research was furthered through the dissection of animals. He first revealed his findings
• at the College of Physicians in 1616, and in 1628 he published his theories in a book entitled '
• 'Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus'
• where he explained how the heart propelled the blood in a circular course through the body

CONTRIBUTIONS

• Experimentally, he found valves in the veins,
• and correctly identified them as restricting the flow of blood in one direction.

CONTRIBUTIONS

• Harvey was also the first to suggest that humans and other mammals reproduced through the fertilization of an egg by sperm.
• It took a further two centuries before a mammalian egg was finally observed.

EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

• He entered the kings school for five years.
• After he joined Caius College in Cambridge Harvey graduated as a Bachelor of Arts in 1597.
• He then traveled through France and Germany to Italy, where he entered the University of Padua, in 1599.
• Harvey graduated as a Doctor of Medicine at the age of 24 from the University of Padua on 25 April 1602.
• After graduating from Padua, Harvey immediately returned to England where he obtained the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the University of Cambridge that same year.

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