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Now in Harvey's time, biochemistry was in its infancy and physiology was only just emerging from the shadow of the middle ages, so he could not explain his theory of altered carbohydrate metabolism in exact chemical terms. But he could suspense test it out in practice and it was at this point, in 1862, that William Banting consulted suspense him. We have Banting's own description of the happy results of that meeting. The subsequent history of William Harvey and his patient is interesting. It shows how social and economic influences and the suspense desire to run with the herd, which is in all of us, can cloud scientific discoveries with compromise and in bringing them into line with orthodoxy can rob them of all practical value. Banting published his Letter on Corpulence in 1864, privately, because he feared, not without reason as it turned out, that the Editor of the Lancet, to whom he first thought of submitting it, would refuse to publish anything "from an insignificant individual without some special introduction."
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