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nonetheless it's true that his work
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undermined Galen's anatomy,
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and it undermined humoral physiology.
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So, this was ultimately,
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then--Harvey's discoveries were
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incompatible with the medical thinking of his time.
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We've mentioned also that the chemical revolution,
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the work of people like Lavoisier,
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was extremely important,
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and it was important in undermining humoralism.
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Because you know that the humoral approach
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was based on a theory of the four elements