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The Biography of William Harvey
===William Harvey was an English was the first to correctly describe in detail, the systemic circulation and properties of blood being pumped from the body by the heart. Harvey was born in Folkestone, Kent, England in 1578. He was the eldest of seven sons of a yeoman father. Harvey studied arts and medicine at Cambridge University and received his bachelor degree of arts in 1592. In 1602 Harvey earned his medical degree from the renowned medical school in Padua, Italy. He studied under Girolamo Fabrici while earning his medical degree.=== ===In 1604 he married Elizabeth Browne, daughter of a prominent London doctor. He also served to the royal king, Harvey became court physician to King James I in 1618 and then to Charles I in 1625. Charles I provided Harvey with deer from the royal parks for his medical research. In 1609, he was appointed physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. However, during the Cromwellian Civil War many of Harvey's medical notes and papers were destroyed in the sacking of his rooms in 1612. He died of a stroke in 1657 in Roehampton and was buried in the family vault at Hemostead Church in Essex. Harvey was known for his ideas about the circulation of blood. ===



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