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Harvey, George Brinton McClellan,
American editor: b. Peacham, VT, Feb 16, 1864; d. Dublin, VT, Aug 20, 1928. After a secondary education, he became a reporter successively for the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, the Chicago News and the New York World; was for a time managing editor of the World and later a constructor and president of various electric railways. He was for a time president of the reorganized house of Harper & Brothers, but purchased and became editor of the North American Review in 1899. In 1921 President Harding made him ambassador to Great Britain. He published Women (1908); The Power of Tolerance (1911); Hughes or Wilson (1916).
Harvey, Sir John
British army officer and administrator: b. 1778; d. 1852. During the War of 1812 he was deputy
adjutant-general of the army in Canada, defeated the Americans at Stoney Creek and took part in
the battle of Lundy's Lane and Chrystler's Farm. He was aide-de-camp to the Duke of Wellington
in 1815 and was present at the battle of Waterloo. From 1837-41 he was lieutenant governor of
New Brunswick, and his firm and tactful handling of the so-called "Aroostook War," in 1838-39,
on the borders of Maine and New Brunswick, did much to avert an actual conflict. From 1841-46
he was governor of Newfoundland and lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia, 1846-52.
Harvey, Moses
Newfoundland historian: b. Armagh, Ireland, March 25, 1820; d. Saint John's, Newfoundland,
Sept 3, 1901. He was graduated at Queen's College, Belfast, in 1840; was pastor of the Free
Presbyterian Church, Saint John's Newfoundland, 1852-78, when he retired from the ministry and
devoted himself to literary and scientific studies. Among his works are Newfoundland, the Oldest
British Colony (1883); Test-Book of Newfoundland History, etc.
Harvey, William Henry (1811-1866)
an Irish botanist, was an authority on
the plants of South Africa. He also wrote descriptions of the algae of Great Britain, North
America, and Australia (see Algae). His masterpiece was the Phycologia Britannica,
illustrated with 400 colored plates, in which he described all known British seaweeds. Harvey
was born at Summerville, near Limerick. He traveled widely before his appointment to a
post at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1843.
Harvey, William Hope
Harvey, William Henry (1811-1866) Harvey, William (1578-1657) Harvey is one of 12 physicians whose statue stands in the Hall of Immortals of Chicago's
International College of Surgeons. Harvey, William [Same person as
above] Admitted as a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1607, he obtained the post of
physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital in 1609, his application being sponsored by the
president of the college and King James I. Appointed Lumleian lecturer to the college in
1615, he began the next year the course of lectures in which he demonstrated the existence
of a general circulation from he left side of the heart by the aorta and its subdivisions, to the
right side by the veins. He had already achieved a distinguished reputation as a physician,
having among his patients the lord chancellor, Francis Bacon, and the earl of Arundel. In
1618 he became physician extraordinary to King James.
Ten years later his epochal Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis (Essay on
the Motion of the Heart and Blood) was published at Frankfort on Main, and he was elected
treasurer of the College of Physicians. However, he held that post only a year, for in 1629, at
the command of Charles I, he accompanied the young duke of Lenox on a European tour
from which he did not return until 1632. Four years later he again went abroad, with the earl
of Arundel on a diplomatic mission to Emperor Ferinand II. The country traversed by the
ambassadorial party had been ravaged by contending armies, for the Thirty Years' War was
raging; but experience of its horrors seems to have affected Harv ey more as a scientific
inconvenience than as an overwhelming human tragedy, since he could write of the journey:
"By the way we could scarce see a dog, crow, kite, raven, or any bird, or anything to
anatomise; only sum few miserable people, the reliques of the war and the plague, whom
famine had made anatomies before I came." Returning to his practice in London at the close of 1636, Harvey accompanied the king
on a journey to Scotland, and in 1642 was with him at the Battle of Edgehill. The royal
children, the prince of Wales and the duke of York, being in his charge during the battle, he
found shelter with them under a hedge, pulled a book from his pocket and began to read, so
he told John Aubrey (q.v.). Aubrey tells us further that the great doctor followed the king to
Oxford where he remained three years, but after the surrender of that city to the Puritans in
1646 he returned to London. Harvey was now 68 years old. Resigning his appointments and practice, he lived a
retured life. His mind still active, he occupied himself with studies in the field of generation.
Dr. Sir George Ent, a friend, persuaded him to publish in 1651 his Exercitationes de
generatione animalium (Essays on the Generation of Animals), the last of his works. By this
time the theory of the circulation of the blood, the truth of which he had so brilliantly
demonstrated, had been generally accepted by leading European Anatomists. Caius College
voted a statue in honor of her famous son (1652); and he, a childless widower, presented his
beloved college with his paternal estate of Burmarsh in Kent, and the endowment for an
annual oration which is still given. John and Thomas Harvey
were the first and second Governors of N.C.
American author: b. Buffalo, Putnam County, W.VA, Aug 16, 1851; d. Feb 11, 1936. He was
educated at Marshall College (W.VA.) And practiced law in 1871-1884. He was a candidate for
vice president of the United States on the Liberal ticket in 1931. He appeared as an author under
the pseudonym "Coin" in Coin's Financial School (1894), in advocacy of bimetallism as a currency
standard. Other works by him are A Tale of Two Nations (1894); Coin's Financial School
(1894); Coin on Money, Trusts and Imperialism (1899); Common Sense (1920).
an Irish botanist, was an authority on the plants of South Africa. He also wrote descriptions of
the algae of Great Britain, North America, and Australia (see Algae). His masterpiece was the
Phycologia Britannica, illustrated with 400 colored plates, in which he described all known British
seaweeds. Harvey was born at Summerville, near Limerick. He traveled widely before his
appointment to a post at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1843.
was an English physician who discovered how blood circulates in the human body. His discovery
became an important foundation of medicine. Harvey's book, An Anatomical Treatise on the
Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals, appeared in 1628. It is considered the most important
single volume in the history of physiology. In it, Harvey showed that the heart, by repeated
contractions, produces a continuous stream of blood throughout the body which continually
returns to its source (see Blood [Circulation of the Blood]). Although his theories were severely
attacked by followers of the ancient Greek physician, Galen, they were based on firsthand
observation and experiment. Harvey lived to see his discovery widely accepted, although full
credit for it came after his death. Harvey was born on Apr 1, 1578, in Folkestone, England.
After graduation from Caius College, Cambridge, he studied medicine at the University of Padua
in Italy. He returned to London in 1602 and practiced medicine. Harvey became a member of the
Royal College of Physicians, and physician at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. He later served as
physician to King James I and King Charles I.
English physician and discoverer of the circulation of the blood: b. Folkestone, April 1, 1578; d.
London, June 3, 1657. Harvey was the son of a well-to-do man of yeoman rank. He attended the
Canterbury grammar school and at sixteen became a pensioner at Caius College, Cambridge, from
which he received the Bachelor of Arts degree three years later. Having chosen medicine as his
profession, he shortly afterward went to the University of Padua and studied under the noted
Italian anatomists Hieronimus Fabricius (1537-1619) and his pupil Julius Casserius, obtaining his
medical degree in 1602. Returning to England next year, he settled in London and married the
daughter of Dr. Lancelot Browne who had been Queen Elizabeth's physician.
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