Who doscovered how blood circulates?

Answer 1

William Harvey

Answer:

Since mankind originated as hunter gatherers the circulation of blood in ourselves and our prey has interested us for a long time.

• The Ebers Papyrus (16th century BCE), an ancient Egyptian medical papyrus contains the thought that the heart and blood vessels work together.
• In ancient India in the 6th century BCE, information on circulation of vital fluids through the body was known to the Ayurvedic physician Sushruta.
• In the 4th century BCE the Greeks knew about the valves of the heart.
• Herophilus, another Greek, distinguished veins from arteries.
• Another Greek physician Galen in 2nd century CE Rome distinguished between venous (dark red) and arterial (brighter and thinner) blood.
• The Persians made many discoveries on the function of the circulatory system in the tenth century.
• In the twelfth century an Arabian physician Ibn al-Nafis became the first person to accurately describe the process the transfer of blood from the heart to the lungs.
• William Harvey in 1628 identified how the heart functions as a pump.
• In 1661 Marcello Malpighi identified the capillary system connecting arteries and veins.