biography
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| lived:
| (1578–1657)
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| biography:
| Physician who discovered the circulation of the blood, born in Folkestone, Kent, SE England, UK. He studied at Cambridge and Padua, and settled in London as a physician, holding appointments at St Bartholomew's Hospital (1609–43) and from 1615 at the College of Physicians. He was also appointed physician to James I and Charles I. His celebrated treatise, De motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus (On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals), in which the circulation of the blood was first described, was published in 1628. |
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