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WILLIAM HARVEY AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE
CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD
by Thomas H. Huxley

THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD*
[*footnote] A Lecture delivered in the Free Trade Hall, November 2nd,
1878.
I DESIRE this evening to give you some account of the life and labours
of a very noble Englishman--William Harvey.
William Harvey was born in the year 1578, and as he lived until the
year 1657, he very nearly attained the age of 80. He was the son of a
small landowner in Kent, who was sufficiently wealthy to send this, his
eldest son, to the University of Cambridge; while he embarked the
others in mercantile pursuits, in which they all, as time passed on,
attained riches.
William Harvey, after pursuing his education at Cambridge, and taking
his degree there, thought it was advisable--and justly thought so, in the
then state of University education--to proceed to Italy, which at that
time was one of the great centres of intellectual activity in Europe, as
all friends of freedom hope it will become again, sooner or later. In
those days the University of Padua had a great renown; and Harvey
went there and studied under a man who was then very
famous--Fabricius of Aquapendente. On his return to England, Harvey
became a member of the College of Physicians in London, and entered
into practice; and, I suppose, as an indispensable step thereto,
proceeded to marry. He very soon became one of the most eminent
members of the profession in London; and, about the year 1616, he was
elected by the College of Physicians their Professor of Anatomy. It was
while Harvey held this office that he made public that great discovery
of the circulation of the blood and the movements of the heart, the

nature of which I shall endeavour by-and-by to explain to you at length.
Shortly afterwards, Charles the First having succeeded to the throne in
1625, Harvey became one of the king's physicians; and it is much to the