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by William Harvey, Realdus Columbus, Fabricius ab Acquapendente, Pecquet, Aselli and a few others, the doctrine of the circulation of the blood and of the part played by the accessory chyle and lymphatic vascular systems, became firmly established before the end of the seventeenth century.