William Harvey : genius discoverer of blood circulation
(2015)

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Enslow Publishing, LLC, 2015
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1 online resource

ISBN/ISSN
9780766065895 MWT15611922, 0766065898 15611922
LANGUAGE
English
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In the 17th century the English physician, William Harvey described for the first time the details of the human circulatory system. Harvey discovered that the heart was a muscle and that by contracting, pushed blood through the body. He worked out the whole pattern of the heartbeat. William Harvey's genius changed how people understood the workings of the human body. This marked on the greatest advances in the study of medicine

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