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Ancient Chinese had their fingers on the pulse

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In his Millennium Essay "Where do babies come from?" Roger Short calls William Harvey's seventeenth-century De Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus "the first accurate description of the circulation of the blood".

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