THINK ABOUT THIS!

TRUE OR FALSE. Study the statements and identify if they are true or
1 false.

1. William Harvey was born on 1 April 1578. True

2. Harvey’s training in medicine at Cambridge was largely theoretical. True
3. On 25 April 1602, Harvey completed his studies at Padua and received the
degree of Doctor of Medicine. True
4. In 1613, he was made Lumleian lecturer. False
5. Harvey’s greatest work was On the Valves in the Veins. False

TIMELINE. Create a timeline of William Harvey’s education using the

2 diagram below.

1588- he attended King’s 1593- he was admitted to

school in Caterbury Caius college, university of 1597- he took
where he was taught Cambridge; he was also his B.A. degree
latin awarded the special
scholarship in medicine

1600- he was elected 1602- he received

1599- he left representative of the the degree of
Cambridge English Nation at the
university of Padua doctor medicine at
Padua

 Q&A. Why was Harvey’s work on blood circulation significant? Explain

4 your answer.

Harvey had proved that the venous blood flowed

to the heart, and that the body's valves in the
veins maintained the one-way flow.

IDENTIFICATION. From your understanding of the resource, identify the

5 relationship and relevance of Hieronymus Fabricius to William Harvey.

Both Hieronymus Fabricius and

William Harvey described blood
circulation through the valves of
the veins
 SOURCE ANALYSIS. Study the words of William Harvey regarding his
study of blood circulation. What do his words mean and why do you
2 think he resorted to theory and not practical evidence? Havery could only make
observations to prove his theories
“...I found the task so truly arduous... that I was almost tempted to think... that the because it was unethical to dissect
movement of the heart was only to be comprehended by God. For I could neither
rightly perceive at first when the systole and when the diastole took place by human bodies at his time
reason of the rapidity of the movement…”
- William Harvey 1628
SOURCE B

INFERENCE. Summarise William Harvey’s words in simpler terms.

3 What made him think of this even before he published his work on blood
circulation?

“Thus far I have spoken of the passage of the blood from the veins into the
arteries....But what remains to be said upon the quantity and source of the blood
William Harvey was
which thus passes, is of a character so novel and unheard-of that I not only fear
injury to myself from the envy of a few, but I tremble lest I have mankind at large criticized by many at his
for my enemies, so much has wont and custom become second nature. Doctrine
once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men. Still, time and he referred to
the die is cast, and my trust is in my love of truth and the candor of cultivated
minds.”
- William Harvey 1628
human kind as his own
SOURCE C
enemy towards the truth

 RESEARCH. Though his study on blood circulation became his famous

4 work, what were his other contributions to the field? Research one and
provide a brief explanation on his findings.

Took 12 years before he published

his ideas in De Motu Cordis in 1628.

JUSTIFICATION. Explain how the source justified the longevity of

5 Galen’s model and how Harvey’s work on blood circulation was met with
bitter opposition.

“To the age of the hearer, in which men had heard and heard only, had
succeeded the age of the eye in which men had seen and been content only to
see. But at last came the age of the hand — the thinking, devising, planning
hand, the hand as an instrument of the mind, now reintroduced into the world in a
modest little monograph from which we may date the beginning of experimental
medicine.”
- William Osler 1906
SOURCE D