He was registrar from 1641 to 1647, and president from 1650 to 1654, in the last of which years he was chosen, on the recommendation of William Harvey who declined the post.
In July 1657 he was named elect of the College of Physicians in place of William Harvey.
Mice have been used in biomedical research since the 16th Century when William Harvey used them for his studies on reproduction and blood circulation and Robert Hooke used them to investigate the biological consequences of an increase in air pressure.
He was father-in-law to William Harvey, who married his daughter Elizabeth, and father of Galen Browne, also a physician.
It includes Library of Congress copies of Poor Richard's Almanack by Benjamin Franklin, and other rare editions: a Gutenberg Bible of 1455, William Harvey's book on the circulation of blood, Galileo ’s Sidereus Nuncius, the first printing of the United States Bill of Rights, and the Magna Carta.
This was also combined with the technological developments which were taking place, leading to people seeing the body as a machine and therefore understandable, classifiable and repairable, one of the first examples of this was the work of William Harvey in the early seventeenth century.
He named the school for Sir William Harvey (1578–1657), personal physician of King Charles I who is considered one of the fathers of modern medical science.
In 1824 he was admitted to the degree of M.D., after publishing an inaugural dissertation, De Morbo Comitiali, and in the same year he brought out a new edition of William Harvey's De Motu Cordis et Sanguinis, with additions and corrections.
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They include key historical texts by authors including Hippocrates, Galen, Vesalius and William Harvey, as well as the writings of Hunter's contemporaries, such as William Smellie, Albinus and Albrecht von Haller.
Macmichael's The Lives of British Physicians was published anonymously in 1830 including biographies of William Harvey, Thomas Linacre and John Caius.
Andrew Eldritch (born 1959), born Andrew William Harvey Taylor, singer of The Sisters of Mercy
Mary married William "Harvey" Flanery on June 28, 1893, and moved with him to Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Major William Harvey Christie (1808–1873) British army officer and public servant in colonial New South Wales.