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    A Turbulent History of Blood

    A revisionist history of medicine, in which blood plays the starring roleInspired by Homer’s description of the ebb and flow of the “wine dark sea,” the ancient Greeks conceived a back-and-forth movement of blood. That false notion, perpetuated by the influential Roman physician Galen, prevailed for fifteen hundred years until William Harvey proved that blood circulates: the heart pumps blood in ... Leer más

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    The Wine-Dark Sea Within

    A Turbulent History of Blood

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    A revisionist history of medicine, in which blood plays the starring roleInspired by Homer’s description of the ebb and flow of the “wine dark sea,” the ancient Greeks conceived a back-and-forth movement of blood. That false notion, perpetuated by the influential Roman physician Galen, prevailed for fifteen hundred years until William Harvey proved that blood circulates: the heart pumps blood in ... Leer más

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