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Ibn Al-Naphis (Ala al-Din Abu al-A'la Ali ibn Abi Hazm al-Quraishi) of Damascus, physician (1210-1288 CE), explained the principles of the modern theory of the lesser or PULMONARY circulation three hundred and fifty years before Sir William Harvey of Kent, England, who is wrongly credited.

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