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Many people learned about the Circulatory System in their elementary school years, so for many, it would be hard to imagine a time where Civilization were unaware of how blood works. It wasn’t until 1682 when a English physician named William Harvey discovered the Circulatory System, before than people didn’t know where it came from and were unaware of its importance, and since then medicine developed rapidly increasing people’s life span and becoming the foundation of medicine, and how much it has effected us to this day.
William Harvey was born in 1578 in Folkston, England He went to Cambridge University and then studied medicine at the University Of Padua(1). He was married to Elizabeth Brown the Court physician daughter, who happened to be the Physician of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I(2). While married to Elizabeth he made a lot of rich and powerful friends, which helped his career skyrocket. This later on landed him the job not only as King James I Physician but......

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