Editing William Harvey (section)

== Legacy ==
[[File:Stamp of USSR 2004.jpg|thumb|150px|William Harvey on a 1957 [[Soviet]] postage stamp]]

Harvey's whalebone demonstration rod, tipped with silver, resides in the silver room of the museum of the [[Royal College of Physicians]]. He used it to point to objects during his lectures.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/5069|title=William Harvey|last=Munk|first=William|publisher=Royal Society of Physicians, Lives of the Fellows, Volume I|page=124}}</ref>

Several medical buildings and institutions are named after or otherwise commemorate Harvey. The [[Harveian Society of Edinburgh]] was founded in 1782 by [[Andrew Duncan (physician, born 1744)|Dr Andrew Duncan]]. The Society holds an annual Festival in honour of Harvey where the President of the Society delivers the Harveian Oration, followed by a formal dinner. The venue for the Festival alternates between the [[Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh]] and the [[Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh]]. The [[Harveian Society of London]] is a medical society founded in 1831 based in The Medical Society of London, Chandos Street, in Cavendish Square.<ref name=":SocietyWebPage">{{Cite web|url=http://www.harveiansocietyoflondon.btck.co.uk|title=The Harveian Society of London - Home|website=www.harveiansocietyoflondon.btck.co.uk|language=en|access-date=21 April 2018}}</ref><ref name=": Geraint2010">{{Cite journal|last=James|first=D. Geraint|date=August 2010|title=The Harveian Society of London|journal=Journal of Medical Biography|volume=18|issue=3|pages=126|doi=10.1258/jmb.2009.009087|issn=1758-1087|pmid=20798408|s2cid=45488609 }}</ref>
The [[Royal College of Physicians]] of London holds an annual lecture established by William Harvey in 1656 called the [[Harveian Oration]].<ref>{{Cite journal | doi=10.1136/bmj.2.4007.783 | pmc=2087562| title=Harveian Oration: Physiology of the Stomach | year=1937 | last1=Hurst | first1=A. | journal=BMJ | volume=2 | pages=783–9| pmid=20780984 | issue=4007}}</ref> 
The [[Harvey Club of London]] was founded in Canada in 1919 and is based in the [[University of Western Ontario]].<ref>{{Cite book |title=A century of medicine at Western: a centennial history of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Western Ontario |last=Barr |first=Murray Llewellyn |date=1977 |publisher=University of Western Ontario |isbn=0919534007 |location=London |oclc=4045914 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/centuryofmedicin0000barr |page=110}}</ref> 
The [[Harvey Society]], found in 1905, is based in New York City and hosts an annual lecture series on recent advances in biomedical sciences.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.harveysociety.org/history/Harvey-Science-25th-Anniversary.pdf| title=Progress of Medicine During the Past Twenty-Five Years as Exemplified by the Harvey Society Lectures | author=Cole, Rufus | journal=Science | date=20 June 1930 | volume=LXXI | issue=1851 | pages=617–627 | doi=10.1126/science.71.1851.617 | pmid=17839933| bibcode=1930Sci....71..617C }}</ref> The main lecture theatre of the [[School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge]] is named after William Harvey, who was an alumnus of the institute.<ref>{{cite web |title=Which Medical Schools Make You The Best Doctor In The World? |url=https://www.crimsoneducation.org/us/blog/which-med-schools-make-you-the-best-doctor |website=Crimson}}</ref> William Harvey Research Institute at [[Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry]] is a research facility focussing on biochemical pharmacology, orthopaedic diseases, endocrinology, genomics, clinical pharmacology and translational medicine and therapeutics.<ref>{{cite web |title=WHRI Barts and the London |url=https://www.qmul.ac.uk/whri/ |website=Queen Mary University of London}}</ref> [[William Harvey Hospital]] in [[Ashford, Kent]] is named after him. Harvey's hometown of [[Folkestone, Kent]] also has a statue of him.<ref>{{cite web |title=William Harvey Statue |url=https://www.bshs.org.uk/travel-guide/william-harvey-statue |website=BSHS Travel Guide|date=22 January 2014 }}</ref>