Sujet

Statue of William Harvey, discoverer of the circulation of the blood, at Folkestone, 1881. Creator: Unknown.

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Statue of William Harvey, discoverer of the circulation of the blood, at Folkestone, 1881. '...in his six-and-twentieth year, [Harvey (1578-1657)] entered on the practice of his profession. At the first vacancy he was appointed physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and in his thirty-seventh year was chosen lecturer on anatomy at the College of Physicians. Early in the course of these lectures he presented a detailed exposition of his views concerning the circulation of the blood, which he repeated yearly, but which he did not publish to the world until 1628, when he was consequently fifty-one years of age. Then his celebrated treatise on the motion of the heart and blood first saw the light, and laid the foundation of modern medical science...[He was] chosen Physician Extraordinary to King James I., and seems to have been now at the zenith of his reputation as a physician...Upon the breaking out of the Civil War in 1642, Harvey attended the King, "by desire of the Parliament," as he himself tells us. At the battle of Edge-hill the Prince (afterwards Charles II.) and the Duke of York were committed to his care...The statue of William Harvey now erected at Folkestone is a bronze figure, eight feet high, sculptured by Mr. Albert Bruce Joy'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM25A33_215

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12,5Mo (749,2Ko) / 12,5cm x 25,0cm / 1472 x 2957 (300dpi)

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