HARVEY TERCENTENARY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 354, 15 May 1928, Page 9

HARVEY TERCENTENARY

DISCOVERED CIRCULATION OF BLOOD CELEBRATIONS ARRANGED British Official Wireless RUGBY, Sunday. The tercentenary celebrations are to be held in London this week of ti e publication by'William Harvey, who discovered the circulation of thf blood, of his book, “De Motu Cbrdis” (“On the Movement of the Heart”). The date of its publication is often referred to as being the birthday of physiology. The Royal College of Physicians in London, of which Harvey was a fellow and lecturer, is arranging the ce!ebra» tions. Delegates from the universities and learned societies in all parts of the British Empire, and from JO foreign countries, are Liking part* King George will receive the d*b-~.»tt=* at Buckingham Palace to-morrow. William Harvey, son of a Kentish farmer, was born in Folkestone in 157 V. and was at Canterbury Grammar School and Caius College, Cambridge. He studied at Padua, Italy, and became a doctor of medicine in 1602. In 1607 he admitted a member of the Royal Colh-ge of Physicians. In 1616 he first propounded his theories on the movements of the heart and blood. He also practised privately, his patients including King James 1., who appointed him physician -in - ordinary. and Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam. ihe famous Lord Chancellor. He published his book on the movement of the heart and blood i»* 1628 -