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Mind Map by hollyweber, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by hollyweber
about 12 years ago
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William Harvey
- Specialism: circulation of blood
- English doctor/ lecturer
- Situation before:
- Galen's idea: liver made blood, burnt by organs
- Galen's idea: liver made blood, burnt by organs
- Situation after:
- Better understanding of circulation
- Better understanding of circulation
- Discoveries
- Blood flowed around body
- Arteries carried away from heart
- Veins carried towards heart
- Heart= pump
- Carefully recorded all findings
- Experimented with rods- could only push them one way through
- Calculated total volume of blood by measuring amount pumped in each heart beat
- Many painstaking experiemnts
- Blood flowed around body
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