Friday, March 6, 2015

Who discovered it ?

Research and find a scientist or doctor that made a contribution to our understanding of the circulatory system. Be sure to include the persons name and their contribution  Please cite your source.

61 comments:

dominic l said...

Galen was a Roman doctor who gained knowledge through animal dissections. He understood the importance of the pulse and that blood moved around the body, but he made some mistakes. For example, he thought that the liver made blood for the veins and the heart made blood for the arteries

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/triple_ocr_gateway/the_living_body/circulatory_systems_cardiac/revision/5/


Anonymous said...

Galen was a Roman doctor who gained knowledge through animal dissections. pulse and that blood moved around the body.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/triple_ocr_gateway/the_living_body/circulatory_systems_cardiac/revision/5/

owenmerola said...

Sigmund Freud was born May 6, 1856, in Freiberg, Moravia (now Czechoslovakia), and died September 23, 1939, in exile in London. When the boy was three, his father, a small wool merchant, was forced by economic reverses to move for a year to Leipzig and thence to Vienna, where Freud spent the rest of his life—1860 to 1938— except for his last year. His biographers agree that the unusual structure of the family into which he was born was partly responsible for his interest in intimate human relationships: Freud’s father had two sons by his first wife; when he remarried after her death, it was to a woman of their age. Sig mund, her first child, often played with his year-older nephew. A brother who was born when Sigmund was not yet a year old died after eight months; then came four sisters and another brother.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Sigmund_Freud.aspx

Chloe O. said...

William Harvey (1578-1657) is recognized as the man who discovered and published the first accurate description of the human circulatory system, based on his many years of experiments and observations as a scientist and physician. Harvey had accumulated a mass of irrefutable experimental evidence in support of his dramatic new view, knowing that a tremendous amount of criticism and disbelief would be mounted against his groundbreaking, revolutionary theory of the physiology of blood circulation. Although the majority of the physicians and scientists of his day refused to accept his research, Harvey's discovery and written description of the true functioning of the heart and circulatory system remains as one of the landmark medical textbooks and the foundation of modern physiology.



http://www.bookrags.com/research/william-harvey-and-the-discovery-of-scit-0312/#gsc.tab=0

Jared S said...

Glen

Anonymous said...

William Harvey made the discovery of veins and arteries. He found that arteries carried blood to the heart, and veins away.

Anonymous said...

Harvey's great contribution to medicine was his revolutionary discovery of the circulation of blood. By dissecting both living and dead animals, Harvey became convinced that the ancient Greek anatomist Galen's ideas about blood movement must be wrong, particularly the ideas that blood was formed in the liver and absorbed by the body, and that blood flowed through the septum (dividing wall) of the heart. Harvey first studied the heartbeat, establishing the existence of the pulmonary (heart-lung-heart) circulation process and noting the one-way flow of blood. When he also realized how much blood was pumped by the heart, he realized there must be a constant amount of blood flowing through the arteries and returning through the veins of the heart, a continuing circular flow.

http://www.discoveriesinmedicine.com/General-Information-and-Biographies/Harvey-William.html

Anonymous said...

Galen.

Braedon M said...

Galen's understanding of anatomy and medicine was principally influenced by the then-current theory of humorism, as advanced by ancient Greek physicians such as Hippocrates. His theories dominated and influenced Western medical science for more than 1,300 years. His anatomical reports, based mainly on dissection of monkeys, especially the Barbary Macaque, and pigs, remained uncontested until 1543, when printed descriptions and illustrations of human dissections were published in the seminal work De humani corporis fabrica by Andreas Vesalius[10][11] where Galen's physiological theory was accommodated to these new observations.[12] Galen's theory of the physiology of the circulatory system endured until 1628, when William Harvey published his treatise entitled De motu cordis, in which he established that blood circulates, with the heart acting as a pump.[13][14] Medical students continued to study Galen's writings until well into the 19th century.

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Olivia M said...

Galen was a Roman doctor who gained knowledge through animal dissections. He understood the importance of the pulse and that blood moved around the body, but he made some mistakes. For example, he thought that the liver made blood for the veins and the heart made blood for the arteries. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/triple_ocr_gateway/the_living_body/circulatory_systems_cardiac/revision/5/

Alexis B said...

Stephen Morse

camden taylor said...

William Harvey

was the first researcher to discovery the circulation of blood through the body. Although we take this knowledge for granted, until Harvey's time, people were not aware that the blood travels through the body and is pumped through its course by the heart.
http://www.discoveriesinmedicine.com/General-Information-and-Biographies/Harvey-William.html

Nick C said...

Galen was a Roman DOCTOR who gained knowledge through animal dissections.

Anonymous said...

William Harvey (1578-1657), the father of modern physiology, was the first researcher to discovery the circulation of blood through the body. Although we take this knowledge for granted, until Harvey's time, people were not aware that the blood travels through the body and is pumped through its course by the heart.

Harvey was born in England in 1578, the eldest of seven sons of a farmer. While five of the other Harvey brothers became London merchants, William studied arts and medicine at Cambridge University, where he received a bachelor of arts degree in 1597. He then earned his medical degree in 1602 from the famous medical school at Padua, Italy. Returning to London, Harvey began what became a very successful medical practice while also working in medical research.

http://www.discoveriesinmedicine.com/General-Information-and-Biographies/Harvey-William.html

Maddi T. said...

Doctor Werner Forssmann in 1929 preformed a heart procedure on himself and he used a fluoroscope to help guide the catheter 60 centimeters (24 inches) into his heart.

Website I Used: http://www.livescience.com/39925-circulatory-system-facts-surprising.html

Dilllon said...

Harvey, observing the notion of the heart in living animals, was able to see that systole was the active phase of the heart's movement, pumping out the blood by its muscular contraction. Having perceived that the quantity of blood issuing from the heart in any given time was too much to be absorbed by the tissues, he was able to show that the valves in the veins permit the blood to flow only in the direction of the heart and to prove that the blood circulated around the body and returned to the heart. Fabricius, his teacher in Padua, had discovered the valves in the veins.


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2776239/

Hayden Wilkins said...

Christiaan Neethling Barnard (8 November 1922 – 2 September 2001) was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first successful human-to-human heart transplant.

Anonymous said...

The origins of medicine itself lie with some of the greatest scientists of all time - Herophilus, Galen, Da Vinci, William Harvey (the list is endless). As well as being physicians, all of these people were also respected scientists who regularly made contributions to our understanding of the body's mechanics. Albeit, the concept of ethics was somewhat thrown to the wind (Herophilus, though dead for thousands of years, is regularly accused of performing vivisections on prisoners in his discovery of the duodenum).










https://www.meducation.net/blog_posts/doctor-or-a-scientist

matthew said...

it is Galen

Jade S said...

Daniel Hale Williams was a physician who performed the first known open-heart surgery in the United States and who founded a hospital with an interracial staff. Daniel Completed First Open-Heart Surgery

Anonymous said...

Paul Andersen surveys the circulatory system in humans. He begins with a short ... He discusses the major components of blood and the cause of a heart attack.

Matt B said...

William Harvey explained his theory of blood circulation to England's king Charles.

Hannah Perkins said...

William Harvey (1578-1657), the father of modern physiology, was the first researcher to discovery the circulation of blood through the body.

http://www.discoveriesinmedicine.com/General-Information-and-Biographies/Harvey-William.html

Tim D said...

William Harvey (1578-1657) is recognized as the man who discovered and published the first accurate description of the human circulatory system, based on his many years of experiments and observations as a scientist and physician. Harvey had accumulated a mass of irrefutable experimental evidence in support of his dramatic new view, knowing that a tremendous amount of criticism and disbelief would be mounted against his groundbreaking, revolutionary theory of the physiology of blood circulation. Although the majority of the physicians and scientists of his day refused to accept his research, Harvey's discovery and written description of the true functioning of the heart and circulatory system remains as one of the landmark medical textbooks and the foundation of modern physiology.



http://www.bookrags.com/research/william-harvey-and-the-discovery-of-scit-0312/#gsc.tab=0

emily b said...

.In 1929, German surgeon Werner Forssmann (1904-1979) examined the inside of his own heart by threading a catheter into his arm vein and pushing it 20 inches and into his heart, inventing cardiac catheterization, a now common procedure.

Anonymous said...

William Harvey made the discovery of veins and arteries. He found that arteries carried blood to the heart, and veins away.

Chris Payeur said...

Micheal E .Debaker

Brooke Carman said...

Paul Andersen (A.K.A Bozeman) surveys the circulatory system in humans. He begins with a short discussion of open and closed circulatory systems and 2, 3, and 4-chambered hearts. He describes the movement of blood through the human heart and the blood vessels. He discusses the major components of blood and the cause of a heart attack.

He teaches about the Circulatory System on Youtube, but he's not really I scientist. Well he might be........?

darren said...

William Harvey was born to a reasonably well-to-do family during a period of unparalled intellectual fervor. The year was 1578, and the period has come to be known as the period of the “scientific revolution.” And indeed, it was a revolution, not because of the frequency of scientific discoveries — that prize goes to the present — but because it witnessed a revolution in epistemological thinking, an upheaval in the approach to acquiring the truth about the natural world.

But more about that later.
http://physiologyonline.physiology.org/content/17/5/175

fanzie said...

Robert Jarvik Physician Robert K. Jarvik is designer and biomedical engineer of the first artificial heart used as a permanent implant in a human being. The device, named Jarvik-7, was implanted in Barney Clark on December 2, 1982 http://www.faqs.org/health/bios/93/Robert-K-Jarvik.html

Josh Y said...

One of them was William Harvey (1578-1657) who finally deconstructed the false views of the cardiovascular system.


https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&es_th=1&ie=UTF-8#q=who%20discovered%20the%20circulatory%20system&es_th=1

Alicia said...

Paul Andersen (A.K.A Bozeman) surveys the circulatory system in humans. He begins with a short discussion of open and closed circulatory systems and 2, 3, and 4-chambered hearts. He describes the movement of blood through the human heart and the blood vessels. He discusses the major components of blood and the cause of a heart attack.

He teaches about the Circulatory System on Youtube, but he's not really I scientist. Well he might be........?



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Kiara M. said...

The ABO blood group system is widely credited to have been discovered by the Austrian scientist Karl Landsteiner, who identified the O, A, and B blood types in 1900.

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&es_th=1&ie=UTF-8#q=scientist%20that%20discovered%20blood%20types&es_th=1

Cameron M. said...

Michael Ellis DeBakey (September 7, 1908 – July 11, 2008) was a world-renowned American cardiac surgeon, innovator, scientist, medical educator, and international medical statesman. DeBakey was the chancellor emeritus of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, director of The Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center, and senior attending surgeon of The Methodist Hospital in Houston. He is known for his work on the treatment of heart patients and for his role in the development of the mobile army.

Brooke DeCapua said...

William Harvey (1578-1657), the father of modern physiology, was the first researcher to discovery the circulation of blood through the body. Although we take this knowledge for granted, until Harvey's time, people were not aware that the blood travels through the body and is pumped through its course by the heart.
http://www.discoveriesinmedicine.com/General-Information-and-Biographies/Harvey-William.html

Cameron M. said...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_E._DeBakey

Jakob P said...

Christiaan Barnard was on of the first people to transport a heart

haley marsico said...

The Framingham Heart Study is a long-term, ongoing cardiovascular study on residents of the town of Framingham, Massachusetts. The study began in 1948 with 5,209 adult subjects from Framingham, and is now on its third generation of participants.[1] Prior to it almost nothing was known about the "epidemiology of hypertensive or arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease".[2] Much of the now-common knowledge concerning heart disease, such as the effects of diet, exercise, and common medications such as aspirin, is based on this longitudinal study. It is a project of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, in collaboration with (since 1971) Boston University.[1] Various health professionals from the hospitals and universities of Greater Boston staff the project.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framingham_Heart_Study

Ian R. said...

William Harvey was born in 1578 in Folkstone, England. The eldest of seven sons, Harvey received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cambridge in 1597. He then studied medicine at the University of Padua, receiving his doctorate in 1602. By all measures, Harvey was successful. After he finished his studies at Padua, he returned to England and set up practice. He then married Elizabeth Brown, daughter of the court physician to Queen Elizabeth I and King James I. This put in him in position to be noticed by the aristocracy, and Harvey quickly moved up the ladder. Eventually, he became court physician to both King James I and King Charles I.


http://biology.about.com/library/organs/blcircsystem2.htm

DYLAN N said...

William Harvey (1578-1657), the father of modern physiology, was the first researcher to discovery the circulation of blood through the body.

http://www.discoveriesinmedicine.com/General-Information-and-Biographies/Harvey-William.html

REX said...

Christian Barnard was on of the first people to transport a heart

Anonymous said...

William Harvey was born to a reasonably well-to-do family during a period of unparalled intellectual fervor. The year was 1578, and the period has come to be known as the period of the “scientific revolution.” And indeed, it was a revolution, not because of the frequency of scientific discoveries — that prize goes to the present — but because it witnessed a revolution in epistemological thinking, an upheaval in the approach to acquiring the truth about the natural world.

But more about that later.

Because of his family status, Harvey had no problem obtaining a privileged education. He studied at the elite King’s School in Canterbury (1588–1594) and later at Gonville and Caius College of Cambridge University, where he received a B.A. He obtained a Doctor of Physic diploma from the University of Padua in 1602. That institution, the alma mater of the same Dr. Caius who helped found Harvey’s alma mater at Cambridge, was one of the great centers of medical education at the time, the home of Galileo and the great anatomist Versalius. There Harvey studied under a student of Versalius, Fabricius, who had written a treatise on the valves in veins but hadn’t the vaguest idea about what they did other than that they might slow blood flow (6,13,14,17).

Years later, when Harvey was close to death, he was asked by Robert Boyle what had induced him to think that the blood circulated (13,17). Harvey replied

...that when he took notice the Valves in the Veins of so many several parts of the body, were so plac’d that they gave free passage to the Blood Towards the Heart, but oppos’d the passage of the Venal blood the Contrary way: He was invited to imagine that so Provident a Cause as Nature had not so Plac’d so many Valves without Design: and no Design seem’d more probable, than That, since the Blood could not well, because of the interposing Valves, be Sent by the Veins to the Limbs; it should be Sent through the Arteries and Return though the Veins, whose Valves did not oppose its course that way. (4)

After returning to London, Harvey obtained his M.D. degree from Cambridge (1602); he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1607 and the physician to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London in 1609. Later, at the age of 37, he was appointed to the distinguished position of Lumleian Lecturer in anatomy at the College of Physicians. It was in the latter capacity that he undertook the experiments that were to lead to one of the greatest scientific revolutions of the century — one that was to abolish, without a trace, a dogma that had persisted for almost 1,500 years (11,12,14).

Anonymous said...

Fabricius discovered veins.


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2776239/

Dakota Sanborn said...

Christian Barnard performed the first human-to-human heart transplant

Anthony B said...

In 1929, German surgeon Werner Forssmann (1904-1979) examined the inside of his own heart by threading a catheter into his arm vein and pushing it 20 inches and into his heart, inventing cardiac catheterization, a now common procedure.

Sameena F. said...

William Harvey discovered the circulation of blood.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Harvey

Aidan Farris said...

Christian Barnard’s place in medial history is based on the fact that Barnard performed the first open heart transplant in history. In 2002 such operations are common but in the late 1960’s operations on the heart were rarely performed because of the risk of death and heart transplants were unheard of. my site is http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/christian_barnard.htm

Lewin P. said...

William Harvey studied the circulatory system and was known to have found it.

Alex Laflamme said...

William Harvey described systemic circulation.

Jake Esty said...

Kim Ann Zimmermann discovered facts on many different systems including the circulatory system.
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=kim+ann+zimmermann+circulatory+system

Hannah M said...

Galen was a Roman doctor who gained knowledge through animal dissections. He understood the importance of the pulse and that blood moved around the body, but he made some mistakes. For example, he thought that the liver made blood for the veins and the heart made blood for the arteries. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/triple_ocr_gateway/the_living_body/circulatory_systems_cardiac/revision/5/

Anonymous said...

William Harvey was born in 1578 in Folkstone, England. The eldest of seven sons, Harvey received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cambridge in 1597. He then studied medicine at the University of Padua, receiving his doctorate in 1602. By all measures, Harvey was successful. After he finished his studies at Padua, he returned to England and set up practice.

http://biology.about.com/library/organs/blcircsystem2.htm

ETHAN SCOTT said...

William Harvey was born in 1578 in Folkstone, England. The eldest of seven sons, Harvey received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cambridge in 1597. He then studied medicine at the University of Padua, receiving his doctorate in 1602. By all measures, Harvey was successful. After he finished his studies at Padua, he returned to England and set up practice.

http://biology.about.com/library/organs/blcircsystem2.htm
shaun b

Anonymous said...

Galen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galen

Timmy said...

Christian Barnard performed the first human-to-human heart transplant.

Ana said...

William Harvey studied the circulatory system and was known to have found it.

-Lewin P.

tanya .m said...

William Harvey (1578-1657), the father of modern physiology, was the first researcher to discovery the circulation of blood through the body.

http://www.discoveriesinmedicine.com/General-Information-and-Biographies/Harvey-William.html

Cole S said...

William Harvey (1578-1657) is recognized as the man who discovered and published the first accurate description of the human circulatory system, based on his many years of experiments and observations as a scientist and physician. Harvey had accumulated a mass of irrefutable experimental evidence in support of his dramatic new view, knowing that a tremendous amount of criticism and disbelief would be mounted against his groundbreaking, revolutionary theory of the physiology of blood circulation. Although the majority of the physicians and scientists of his day refused to accept his research, Harvey's discovery and written description of the true functioning of the heart and circulatory system remains as one of the landmark medical textbooks and the foundation of modern physiology.



http://www.bookrags.com/research/william-harvey-and-the-discovery-of-scit-0312/#gsc.tab=0

Jack B said...

Claude Galien was a prominent Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher in the Roman empire.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galen

Zeke Sturgeon said...

Willem Harvey is the first man who discovered the circulatory system.