Rare Piece of Medical History at the Harrell Library

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his video describes the book Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus (An Anatomical Exercise on the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Living Beings). This book is considered the first publication to correctly describe the human circulatory system. The library’s copy was published in 1639.

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Rare Piece of Medical History at the Harrell Library

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