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  • Famous Caians > 16th Century

    John Caius
    Famous physician, President of the Royal College of Physicians and refounder of the College. Parodied by Shakespeare in Merry Wives of Windsor.
     
    Stephen Perse
    Local businessman and philanthropist, now best known for the schools founded with his bequest and bearing his name.
     
    William Harvey
    Court physician to Charles I, discoverer of the circulation of blood in the body. One of the founders of modern medicine, especially physiology, working by observation rather than the teachings of the Greeks.
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