Key Indiviual William Harvey
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- William Harvey
- Area of Expertise: Anatomy (Circulation of the Blood)
- Proved that the blood flows
- around the body, is carried away from the heart by the arteries and returns back via the veins. He proved that the heart acts as a pump recirculating the blood and that blood does not get used up and no other organ manufactures new blood
- Proved that the blood flows
- Brief Background
- Born in Kent in the year of 1578
- Studied at Cambridge and Padua, before becoming doctor and lecturer on anatomy
- in 1652 he published and Wrote 'An anatomical Account Of The Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals'
- Contribution to Medicine
- Galen challenged- blood flows around the body and is not produced by the liver and Galen thought that the hear pumped it around and that it was burnt off like a fuel
- Factors that Helped
- Communication and Technology
- book accurately mass produced using printing, spread ideas throughout
- Genius
- Harvey used careful scientific methods to prove ideas (dissection, observation, experimentation)
- He took a very scientific and methodical approach
- Tried to pump blood wrong way through the veins and calculated how much blood by measuring amounts pumped
- He dissected live cold blooded animals whose hearts beats very slowly this meant that he could see the movements of each muscle
- Communication and Technology
- Factors that Hindered
- Conservatism
- Resistance to new ideas, particularly those that challenged Galen
- Discoveries not practical
- Nobody was made more healthy by Harvey's discoveries.
- Conservatism
- Long Term Impacts
- He can prove his theory to be correct
- It's correct as it's still used today (longevity)
- The microscope shortly after his death helped prove him right - helped prove capillaries
- Developed theory further e.g. bone marrow produces blood when needed and this is due to the knowledge of red and white blood cells
- Significance Factors
- Scale: All across Europe
- Impact: Challenged Galen's work
- Infamous: Challenged Galen's work this meant that Church disliked his work
- Famous: dissected cold, blooded animals and wrote book
- Longevity: he was correct and his theory is still used today. Harvey did not have microscopes but now we can see all the capillaries and red blood cells and white blood cells
- Short Term Impact
- A lot of people did not believe in his ideas. He was a wealthy doctor and wealthy people often faired successfully well.
- Only his patients believed he was right
- Not a lot of change to the health of the people
- Area of Expertise: Anatomy (Circulation of the Blood)
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