time, Herophilos stated that diseases occurred when an excess of one of the four humors impeded the pneuma from reaching the brain. Herophilos also introduced...

states that Herophilos of Alexandria vivisected some criminals sent by the king. The early Christian writer Tertullian states that Herophilos vivisected...

saw the choroid from dissections of animal eyes. About 100 years later, Herophilos (c. 335 – 280 BCE) also described the choroid from his dissections on...

motor neuron disease. The first recorded description of the nerve was by Herophilos in the third century BC. The name hypoglossus springs from the fact that...

antiquity. Human dissection was practiced, mostly by Herophilos and Erasistratus; Praxagoras was Herophilos' teacher. Although the university in Alexandria...

saint of Chalcedon Boethus of Chalcedon (2nd century BC), Greek sculptor Herophilos (2nd century BC), Greek physician Phaleas of Chalcedon (4th century BC)...

and doctors of the Alexandria School were Herophilos and Erasistratus.[citation needed] Although Herophilos (c. 300 BC) is considered to be the founder...

ancient Greece started under Ptolemaic kings due to their link to Egypt. Herophilos, through his work by studying dissected human corpses in Alexandria, is...

called Φλέβες, phlebes. The word arteria then referred to the windpipe. Herophilos was the first to describe anatomical differences between the two types...

century Herophilos in Alexandria was one of the first anatomists to perform dissections of the human body for the brief time that it was legal. Herophilos discovered...

vivisection of human beings took place for the first time in the work of Herophilos and Erasistratus. Anatomical knowledge in antiquity would reach its apex...

The first mention of lymphatic vessels was in the 3rd century BC by Herophilos, a Greek anatomist living in Alexandria, who incorrectly concluded that...

tradition. Praxagoras theorized that blood traveled through the veins, while Herophilos and Erasistratus performed dissections and vivisections of humans and...

one of the most accomplished of all medical researchers of antiquity Herophilos, physician, one of the earliest anatomists Dioscorides, physician, pharmacologist...

nerve nets. These are found in Cnidaria, Ctenophora and Echinodermata. Herophilos (335–280 BC) described the functions of the optic nerve in sight and the...

the difference between arteries and veins. Also in the 4th century BCE, Herophilos and Erasistratus produced more accurate anatomical descriptions based...

and human experimentation. Celsus discusses, for example, the case of Herophilos and Erasistratos, who he asserts practised vivisection. In the treatment...

with laurel wreath is probably of Emperor Tiberius. The work is signed Herophilos Dioskourid[ou] ('Herophilus, son of Dioscorides'). The colour of the glass...

first use of human bodies for anatomical research occurred in the work of Herophilos (335–280 BC) and Erasistratus (c. 304 – c. 250 BC), who gained permission...

sculptor Praxiteles ends his active career in Athens (approximate date). Herophilos, Greek physician and first anatomist (d. 280 BC) Hicetas of Syracuse,...

Philalethes, a contemporary of Aristoxenus, and a follower of the teachings of Herophilos. He succeeded Alexander as the head of the Herophilean school of medicine...

physician and patient. Hippocrates is also known as "the Father of Medicine". Herophilos (335–280 BCE) was the first to base his conclusions on dissection of the...

ailments - instead of the reproductive physiology that was studied under Herophilos. von Staden, Heinrich (1989). Herophilus: The Art of Medicine in Early...

of them in historical review. Hippocrates (the "father of medicine"), Herophilos, Erasistratus and later Galen studied at the temple of Amenhotep, and...

phone calls, or objects that are normally unavailable to prisoners. Herophilos of Chalcedon was reputed by Celcus, among others, to have vivisected prisoners...

Slightly later, in the early 3rd century BC, the Hellenistic physician Herophilos employed a portable clepsydra on his house visits in Alexandria for measuring...

older, and describes the veins as a gutter or canal. This is named after Herophilos, the Greek anatomist who first used cadavers for the systematic study...

nerve cells directly, with signals from a digital camera. Around 300 BCE, Herophilos identified the retina from dissections of cadaver eyes. He called it the...

Eratosthenes Euclid Eudoxus of Cnidus Eupalinos Galen Heron of Alexandria Herophilos Hipparchos Hippocrates Meton of Athens Parmenides Posidonios Ptolemy Pythagoras...

medicine in Europe and the Middle East for centuries. The physicians Herophilos and Paulus Aegineta were pioneers in the study of anatomy, while Pedanius...