William Harvey and His Contributions
1961; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Volume: 23; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1161/01.cir.23.2.286
ISSN1524-4539
Autores Tópico(s)Hemoglobin structure and function
ResumoTHE HARVEIAN Orator of 1662, prob- ably Sir Charles Scarburgh but perhaps someone else who knew Harvey well, pro- claimed that Harvey "thought again and again and for a long time how he could raise himself effectively from the ground and place his head among the stars and at last there settled in his mind the wish to embrace medi- cine."'"Harvey certainly succeeded in rising to a place amongst the stars, and the "ground," so to speak, from which he raised himself was Folkestone, on the strait of Dover, in Kent.Here, William Harvey was born on April 1, 1578, twenty years after the first Elizabeth had ascended the throne of England.William was the eldest son in a family of seven sons and two daughters.His father, Thomas Harvey, was a Turkey mer- chant as, subsequently, were five of Harvey's brothers.Harvey was born into a world in ferment- intellectual, religious, social, economic, and political.Indeed, the year 1588, when young Harvey went off to King's School, Canterbury, was the year when the Invincible Armada of 132 vessels and over 3,000 cannon attempted its ill-fated invasion of England; Drake struck his most damaging blows in an attack that began off Calais, across the Strait from Folke- stone.Harvey attended King's School, Canterbury for five years.It was probably during this period that "there settled in his mind the wish to embrace medicine, " for Sir
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