biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1631–91)
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| biography:
| Physician and physiologist, born in Tremeer, Cornwall, SW England, UK. He studied at Oxford, and worked with Thomas Willis in London. With Robert Hooke he collaborated in a series of experiments on the role of the lungs in changing the colour of the blood. His Tractatus de corde (1669, Treatise on the Heart) was a major work on pulmonary and cardiovascular anatomy and physiology. He also conducted experiments in blood transfusion. |
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