. Epitome of the history of medicine : based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. bovethe ligature, and swelling below it. Such was the stateof science at the beginning of the seventeenth century ;there remained, practically, but one step to take,—to findthe true course of the blood. William Harvey was born in Folkestone, Kent, in1578 and died in London in 1637. He first studied atCambridge, entering at the age of fifteen; subsequentlytraveled in France, Germany, and Italy, remaining inPadua from 1599 to 1602, in order to hear the lecturesof Fabricius ab Aquapenden
. Epitome of the history of medicine : based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. bovethe ligature, and swelling below it. Such was the stateof science at the beginning of the seventeenth century ;there remained, practically, but one step to take,—to findthe true course of the blood. William Harvey was born in Folkestone, Kent, in1578 and died in London in 1637. He first studied atCambridge, entering at the age of fifteen; subsequentlytraveled in France, Germany, and Italy, remaining inPadua from 1599 to 1602, in order to hear the lecturesof Fabricius ab Aquapendente. With the title of Doctor 156 THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE. he returned and settled in London and soon became amember of the College of Medicine, of which he was madea regent in 1613; in time he became physician to James I,and. on the demise of this sovereign, to Charles I; to thelatter he dedicated his chief work. During the civil warhe was driven from place to place, and. finally, to he surrendered himself to the Parliamentary troops,after which he again resided in London with his brothers,. Fig. 22.—William Haevey. who had become rich. Modesty led him to decline thehigh distinction of President of the College of Physicians,and he lived a quiet and retired life, occupied with hisstudies and. in his later years, investigations in after 1613 he began, through his lectures, to makeknown the doctrine of the circulation of the blood; but hedid not publish the results of his researches until 1628,after submitting them to fifteen years of proofs and counter- WILLIAM HARVEY. 157 proofs of every kind. So bitter was the opposition of hiscontemporaries to the new doctrine that he at one time losta part of his practice, and was even held to be is characteristic of the fate of new truths, as well as ofthat age of dominant authority, that his first publication—Concerning the Motions of the Heart and the Blood—wasunable to pass censorship
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