Talk:William Harvey

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Quote from Hobbes

Basically states Harvey is the only man to have his theories accepted during his lifetime. Not the contrary, which was previously stated on the page. Basically the circulatory model of the cardiovascular system was accepted completely within 30 years.

-Other interesting factoids that I frankly don't have time to write up are are about his involvement in the royalist side of the english revolution, the destruction of the original De Motu Cordis and apparently interesting descriptions of him in Thomas Aubrey's "Brief Times"

Harvey's motto

There is no evidence of a motto that was used by William Harvey''

William Harvey Hospital

There is indeed a hospital in Ashford called the William Harvey Hospital, but the comment doesn't really sit very well where it is, nor is the rest of the comment correct - Folkestone HAS a hospital (the Royal Victoria Hospital - http://www.ekht.nhs.uk/home-page/our-hospitals/royal-victoria-hospital/) and even if it didn't, the Buckland Hospital (http://www.ekht.nhs.uk/home-page/our-hospitals/buckland-hospital/) is nearer. That's not really relevant though - is anyone able to make more of a point about the William Harvey Hospital and maybe some detail on whether it's simply named after him or there's more to it than that?

There is also a block in Chelmsford Anglia Ruskin uniersity named after William Harvey where they train nurses with brilliant technology and dummies that talk.

Harvey and Witch Trials

I think a valid question is: is this section really relevant to the topic of William Harvey? The paragraph is rather vague and doesn't make much sense. After doing a little digging myself, there is word that William Harvey was asked to examine the bodies of the women accused of witchcraft. In the paragraph you state that, but you do not go into enough detail. This would be a new angle to take the paragraph. Maybe see why people thought that examining their bodies would be helpful in convicting the women? You go off to talk about other things after saying that he was going to examine the bodies, so maybe get more information and add on to it before changing the subject. How does William Harvey relate to the witch trials? You state that he was sent to examine them, but why? Also, when you say that it was because of him that the women were acquitted there is no other information as to why that is. I think that if William Harvey was a significant part of the witch trials, there would be more information to write about. Find more information about William Harvey's participation in the witch trials to see if he was a key player or not, then re-evaluate that paragraph.

Harvey and Descartes

Where is the evidence that Harvey developed the ideas of Descartes?

It is the other way round. Harvey's On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals was written in 1628, and was published years after he began expounding the theory. According to Wikipedia, The Description of the Human Body was written in the 1640s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Description_of_the_Human_Body

Also, Descartes cites William Harvey in Part 5 of the Discourse on Method, as 'an English doctor' whom he borrows proof from. Descartes even borrows Harvey's mistake (that the function of the heart is to heat the blood).

Gout-ravaged blood vessels

In the section regarding Harvey's death there is a passage implying that Harvey's death was from a haemorrhagic stroke secondary to gout. To the best of my knowledge while gout is associated with increased risk of stroke it is not scientifically accepted to be a cause of stroke. This seems to be a quote from D'Arcy Power's 1897 biography linked as a source further down this section. I suggest the section be edited to remove this implication. Also this section appears to be directly quoted from Power's biography, but initially appears to be unsourced original work and could maybe do with re-writing or more thorough sourcing. 2A02:C7C:7CBF:EC00:9DE8:BFBE:D821:11C (talk) 17:54, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]