William Harvey Heart Centre was opened in 2011 by Sir William Castell LVO and is dedicated to tackling the growing burden of heart disease and stroke worldwide. The Centre is based at Queen Mary’s ...

Through careful ligature experiments on fish, snakes, and other animals, Harvey showed that these little doors opened and shut in such a way that blood could only flow one way through the veins, from ...

The English physician William Harvey was the first to explain how our pumping hearts circulate blood. Though circulation remained the primary focus of his medical research, Harvey also studied ...

William Harvey publishes "An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals," which details for the first time the idea of circulation and how blood travels throughout the ...

A few individuals, such as Andreas Vesalius, Ambroise Paré and William Harvey, made particularly ... working of the cardiovascular system (the heart and blood vessels). This led him to reject ...

Harvey dissected frogs, which have a slow pulse rate, and showed that blood was pumped around the body by the heart. He also discovered the role of valves in blood vessels, which make sure blood ...