The discovery of pulmonary circulation: From Imhotep to William Harvey

Authors

  • Mohamed ElMaghawry 1. Department of Cardiology, Aswan Heart Centre, Aswan, Egypt 2. Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Science, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
  • Alberto Zanatta 2. Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Science, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
  • Fabio Zampieri 2. Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Science, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

Abstract

In his quest to comprehend his existence, Man has long been exploring his outer world (macro-cosmos), as well as his inner world (micro-cosmos). In modern times, monmental advances in the fields of physics, chemistry, and other natural sciences have reflected on how we understand the anatomy and physiology of the human body and circulation. Yet, humanity took a long and winding road to reach what we acknowledge today as solid facts of cardiovascular physiology. In this article, we will review some of the milestones along this road.

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Published

2017-06-28

Issue

Vol. 2014 No. 2 (2014)

Section

Review articles

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This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license CC BY 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.