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Identifier: interstatemedica1319unse (find matches)
Title: Interstate medical journal
Year: 1906 (1900s)
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Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: St. Louis, : Interstate Medical Journal
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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the 23d of December, in 1601, he was edu-cated in the humanities at Gaud, in philosophy at Louvain, and in medi-cine at Leyden, after which he passed into Italy for post-graduate in-struction at Padua and Bologna, receiving the degree of the latter uni-versity. Returning to Amsterdam, he began the practice of medicine.In 1633 he was called to the chair of medicine in the University ofLouvain. He died in that city in 1671. Such is the brief record of hislife as found in Dezeimeris Dictioiuwire Historique dc la McdecineAncienne et Modernc. It omits the most important episode in the lifeof Plempius—viz., his controversy with Descartes regarding the cir-culation of the blood as announced by William Harvey. When Harveyannounced the discovery of the circulation, he met with the greatestopposition. He was denounced as an imposterj the Latin word cir-culator (a quack) was applied to him; his practice fell off; the vulgarregarded him as crack-brained, and all the physicians were against him.
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234 DIXON. The medical world was not prepared to believe that the blood under-goes a ceaseless circular motion with the heart as a propelling power.Primrose of Scotland. Parisanus of Venice, Hoffman of Nuremberg,Vesling of Padua, and others fought the Harveyan doctrine. Harvey,however, was not to battle unaided. Rene Descartes, the celebratedphilosopher, in 1637, nine years after the discovery was announced, said:But for an explanation of the reason why the blood of the veins isnot exhausted by passing continually into the heart, I must refer tothe work of an English physician, to whom belongs the honor of havingfirst shown that the course of the blood in the body is nothing less thana kind of perpetual movement in a circle. Plempius answered Descartes. At first he could not believe theancients to be wrong. He began to reason and to experiment. Hewent over Harveys work step by step. He made the same experiments,repeated them time and again, arrived at the same conclusions, and de-cide

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