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(1578-1657)

FREDERIC D. ZEMAN, MD

Arch Intern Med. 1963;111(6):829-834.

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In the 300 years that have passed since his death in his 80th year, countless numbers of scholars in medicine, surgery, and history have studied, lectured, and written about the life, character, and works of William Harvey. To attempt at this time to add even a footnote to this literature may seem presumptuous, were it not for the hope that fresh viewpoints may perhaps bring new insights. Increasing understanding of the mental and physical problems of the aging lends new emphasis to the facts we have on Harvey's later years, enhances particularly the value of his own comments about himself, and heightens our appreciation of him as a human being.

Rereading Harvey's works in Sir Kenneth Franklin's revealing new translations brings fresh realization of the range and the modernity of the great physician's thinking.^1,2 Recently I had the opportunity³ to stress a phase of his accomplishment that on . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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From the Medical Services, The Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews, New York.

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Received for publication Dec 27, 1962; accepted Jan 14, 1963.

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