To Huang Ti's credit, though, he managed, without ever disassembling a corpse, to figure out that "the blood of the body is under the control of the heart" and that "the blood current flows in a continuous circle and never stops." In other words, the man figured out what William Harvey figured out, four thousand years before Harvey and without laying open any family members.
Huang Ti, an ancient Chinese emperor, made significant contributions to the understanding of the human body, particularly regarding the circulatory system. Remarkably, he deduced that the heart regulates blood within the body and that blood circulates continually without interruption. His insights about the body's functions were made four thousand years before the more widely recognized discoveries of William Harvey, who later confirmed similar principles through direct anatomical studies.
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