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The Harveian Oration is a yearly lecture held at the Royal College of Physicians of London
Royal College of Physicians

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The Harveian Oration is a yearly lecture held at the Royal College of Physicians of London
Royal College of Physicians

The Royal College of Physicians of London was the first medical institution in England to receive a Royal Charter. It was founded in 1518 and is one of the most active of all medical professional organisations....
. It was instituted in 1656 by William Harvey
William Harvey

William Harvey was an English physician who was the first in the Western world to describe correctly and in exact detail the systemic circulation and properties of blood being pumped around the body by the heart....
, discoverer of the systemic circulation.