Harvey vs Galen: does blood circle or ebb?

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WILLIAM HARVEY vs GALEN go head to head — and every jab is rooted in real history.

GALEN

Blood is brewed anew in the liver and consumed by the flesh like fuel to a flame; it moves as the tides, ebbing and seeping through the heart's tiny pores.

WILLIAM HARVEY

There are no pores, Galen. I tied off the arm, I counted the beats, and the heart pumps more blood in an hour than the whole body could ever hold.

GALEN

You would overthrow reason with a ligature and a stopwatch? My anatomy guided a thousand years of healing!

WILLIAM HARVEY

And a thousand years bled patients dry chasing your phantom tides - I simply followed the blood, and it came back around to me.

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