ABSTRACT
His researches and experiments in anatomy, cardiopulmonary function, and blood transfusion enlarged upon the work of William Harvey (1578-1657) on the circulation of the blood. A number of his researches were carried out in collaboration with Thomas Willis (1621-1675), Robert Hooke (1635-1703), and Robert Boyle (1627-1691) at Oxford and London and were aided by his great skill as a vivisectionist. Lower received his arts and medical degrees from Oxford and served for a time as Willis’s research assistant. He became a highly
successful physician and a member of the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal Society of London.
