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HEALTH > physician > William Harvey
[The heart] is...
Vendor: HEALTH
[The heart] is the household divinity which, discharging its function, nourishes, cherishes, quickens the whole body, and is indeed the foundation of life, the source of all action.
Source: Lecture I, On the Motion of the Heart and Blood, 1628.
-- William Harvey, (Apr 1 1578-1657), English physician; The Father of Modern Physiologydiscovered the true nature of the circulation of the blood and of the function of the heart as a pump.