Ep.34 - Kristin Hussey - William Harvey, College of Physicians and the Discovery of Circulation
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English - June 26, 2020 07:00 - 45 minutes - 36.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsScience Health & Fitness Medicine medical history medicine rcpe royal college physicians edinburgh lectures Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Born into a middle-class family in 1578, William Harvey rose to fame as one of Britain’s foremost anatomists, Harvey’s discovery of the circulation of blood rocked the medical world of the time, published in his treatise On the Motion of the Heart and Blood. Physician to King Charles I and a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London, William Harvey is one of history’s prominent figures.
Speaker: Dr Kristin Hussey (Curator, Royal College of Physicians of London)