The San Francisco call., 1908-11-22
ONE OF THE GREATEST -.
=. D,~. OF NOTED DOCTORS
William Harvey's Arduous Eff.
forts in the Field of
Medical Science

One Of the greatest of English physi
clans, William Harvey. the discoverer
of the circulation of the blood, was born
at Folkestone' on April /, 1873. His
father Thomas Harvey, was a native
of the county and an ALDERMAN of the
town. There is little real Information
as to William Harvey's youthful days.
At 10 years old he was sent to Kings
school, Canterbury, and five years later
went TO Cambridge, where he was ad-
mitted at Caius college. In 1897 he
took his b. A, and having made up his
mind to take UP medicine as profes-
sion, started off for Padua, the most
celebrated school of physic of the day
Here for five years he worked assidu-
ously, attending the candlelight lee
lures of Fabricius, the famous anato-
mist. Having taken his diploma, he re-
turned to England, married, and set
tied down in the parish of st. Martins. s.
Iudgate hill. From this time forth the
path of fame seemed to lie open to him.
than he was admitted of the college 'of
physicians and later on elected a fell
low. year or SO passed and he was
appointed assistant physician. then ply
sician, of ST. Bartholomew hospital.
In August, 1915, Harvey was elected
Lumlelan lecturer to the College of
Physicians and in the following year
he delivered the first of his ia
the blood. The notes, which cover
close upon hundred pages of closely
written matter, may be seen today at
sentences are underlined with red
ink; others, probably those express
sive of his own original ideas, are
initiated. W. H; there are, too, many
marginal notes in Latin. The whole
treatise IS arranged with the greatest
method and is an exhaustive analysis
of the various parts OF the human body.
than an hour day, and by way OF as
sisting his hearers to grasp more read
| lily the different parts in his argument,
a dead body was displayed on the dis
Sectlng table. 1t is said that Harvey,
in order to work out his great theory,
dissected more than so different ami
mails.
The interest in medical circles pro-
be imagined. It was the fashion in
those. days TO talk with a show of
learning. Thus the whole town was
given up to discussion of the new dis.
covery- 1t was about this time that
Harvey was appointed physician ex-
traordinary to King James |. 1t would
clan took life somewhat easier. for we
| hear of him travelling through France
with the duke of Lennox; later he is
| in attendance on Lord Arundel in
! read of him being feted at the English
! college in Rome. at such times as he
comes before the popular notice ii is in
connection with some public 1ai eXamlna- MI I.
| indispensable. Thus in 1888 he is in
structed to examine four Lancashire
women accused of witchcraft; ano
again he is ordered to hold a post NOR
/ tenn on the body of a Shropshire labor
| Ell who was stated to have died at the
| age of 153. Then. later on, We hear
! of him defending himself against the
/ accusations of q barber surgeon, who
declared that his servant had died ow-
Ling TO dose of Harvey's physic- Har-
veys immortal work on the circulation
OF the blood was published at Frank
fort in 1873. This was some II years
after his first lectures on the subject.
His philosophical patience IS much to
be admired, in that he refused TO an
nounce his great discovery TO the world
until 1t had been thoroughly matured
and confirmed.
At the outbreak of the civil war he
threw in his lot with the king, and
was present in his professional ca
said that he had charge of the royal
princess, to whom he read book dur
ing the engagement. After the sur
render of Oxford he returned TO Lon
! don, only to find that his house had
! been piilaged by the mob, and all his
papers stolen. From this time onward
until his death he lived with one or
| the other of his brothers, who were
wealthy merchants in the city. For
the greater part of his life he suffered
agony from gout. to cheek which he
.Ag he grew older the disease became
more viruient. until at last II was the
cause Of his death Thus, on June 3. in
the year 1858. the great William Har-
/ vey died. in the eightieth year of his
! age. His remains were inferred at