He contributed to Braunwald’s Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular ... a similar to-and-fro motion of blood operated within the human body. Modern medicine would be impossible without Harvey’s ...

The English physician William Harvey was the first to explain how our pumping hearts circulate blood. Though circulation remained the primary focus of his medical research, Harvey also studied ...

At the William Harvey Heart Centre Professor Ken Suzuki and his team are driving translational programmes to evaluate a novel bioengineering technology using cellular sheets for surgical grafting onto ...

Harvey dissected frogs, which have a slow pulse rate, and showed that blood was pumped around the body by the heart. He also discovered the role of valves in blood vessels, which make sure blood ...

A few individuals, such as Andreas Vesalius, Ambroise Paré and William Harvey, made particularly ... perform dissections to find out how the human body worked. A local judge took an interest ...