Discovery of the pulmonary circulation

A reply to a reply: From ancient Persia (before 637 AD) to William Harvey (17th Century AD)   We read with the great interest the response of Bestett and Couto1 to our last publication on the discovery of pulmonary circulation by ancient Persians.2 The authors claimed that the credit for the discovery of the pulmonary circulation should be given to Michel Servetus (1511–1553 AD). They believed that Servetus presented the pulmonary circulation more comprehensively and completely in comparison to the ancient Persians as well as Ibn Nafis and Akhawayni (in the Islamic civilization) and also, his definition was …