William Harvey

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William Harvey, my client, was born in Folkestone, United Kingdom on April 1st, 1578. Harvey studied the vascular system for many years before making his discovery. He found that blood circulates through the body and that the heart is responsible for pumping the blood. I believe that there is no reason for Harvey to be held in prison because he did nothing wrong, I am asking you to set him free because this discovery could lead to many, many things in the future and could help us with our health. We need to know how to properly treat our heart because then we can stay healthy and that will lead to longer lives.

William Harvey had the theory of how the heart functions and it was very different from the first idea. What he came up with from studying the vascular system for many years is that blood is circulating through the body and the heart is responsible for pumping all that blood. Harvey published a book called “Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus” and this explained everything. This was proof that his theory was the right theory because it had an explanation of how it all worked. He first started to come up …show more content…

If we were to go off the old idea, food goes through the heart and this produces blood, we would end up with unhealthy people. If we base this off of the old theory, we would end up eating more food than we need because we think that this is the healthy thing to do. This would result in us having some unhealthy overweight people which makes us have shorter lives. In order for us to stay healthy and have longer lives, we need to base our thinking off of the new theory so that we know how to treat our heart. We need to know what to avoid so that we don’t treat our heart badly and we need to figure out what we need to do, with Harvey being released, he could tell us how to have longer lasting

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