Abstract
William Harvey was born in Folkestone on April 1 1578. He was educated at the Kings School Canterbury Gonville and Caius College Cambridge and the University of Padua graduating as doctor of arts and medicine in 1602. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1607 and was appointed to the Lumleian lectureship in 1615. In the cycles of his Lumleian lectures over the next 13 years Harvey developed and refined his ideas about the circulation of the blood. He published his conclusions in 1628 in Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus which marks the beginning of clinical science. In it Harvey considered the structure of the heart arteries and veins with their valves. By carefully devised experiments and supported by the demonstration of the unidirectional flow of the blood in the superficial veins of his own forearm he established that the blood circulated and did not ebb and flow as had been believed for more than 1000 years. (excerpt)
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