An anatomical dissertation upon the movement of the heart and blood in animals : being a statement of the discovery of the circulation of the blood / by William Harvey.

  • Harvey, William, 1578-1657.
Date:
1894
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Credit: An anatomical dissertation upon the movement of the heart and blood in animals : being a statement of the discovery of the circulation of the blood / by William Harvey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    PREFATORY MEMOIR. OCTOR WILLIAM HARVEY was the eldest son of Thomas Harvey^of Folkestone, by his second wife Joan Halke. Hel was born at Folkestone on the ist of April, 1578. His father is described as a Jurat or Alderman, of Folkestone, where he was elected to the Office and Dignity of Mayor in the year 1600. Beyond this Thomas Harvey, the family genealogy lapses into trackless obscurity; although he is considered by a Genealogist of the Harveys* as ' apparently descended from or of the same branch ' of the family as Sir Walter Harvey, Pepperer Warden ' or Mayor of London 1272-3 who bore like arms,'—but of this vague relationship, which probably the Doctor himself never heard of, there is no satisfactory evidence. Thomas Harvey was undoubtedly a highly respectable person as Burgess, Alderman and Mayor of Folkestone, which was then a small fishing town with a more or less romantic trade in smuggling, where he was probably engaged in some business occupation. By his second Wife Joan, whom he wedded in the year 1577, he had seven sons and two daughters, of whom Doctor Harvey was the eldest. According to John * See ' Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica,' 2nd Series, volume i., pp. 357, 388 ; also volume iii., p. 329, &c.—Genealogical Contributions by W. J. Harvey—from which much of the genealogical data of this Memoir has been derived.