17th century English physician and anatomist. He is famous for his discovery of the
circulation of blood in 1616, his theory explained in his '
Essays on the Motion of the Heart and Blood' which was published in 1628.
Harvey was physician at St Bartholemew's hospital in 1609. He became royal physician to King Charles I in
1630 and attended the monarch during the Civil War.
In 1651, he published a work maintaining that every
animal develops from an ovum (egg, c.f. autogenesis) and was elected President of the College of
Physicians in 1654.
His collected works were issued as two volumes in 1766.
Harvey arrived with King Charles I at Oxford from the first battle of the
Civil War at Edgehill in 1642. Here he
met the student Nathaniel Highmore - the two physicians formed a life-long friendship
and both worked on the circulation of blood.
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