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...
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states that Herophilos of Alexandria vivisected some criminals sent by the king. The early Christian writer Tertullian states that Herophilos vivisected...
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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...
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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...
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antiquity. Human dissection was practiced, mostly by Herophilos and Erasistratus; Praxagoras was Herophilos' teacher. Although the university in Alexandria...
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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...
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The first mention of lymphatic vessels was in the 3rd century BC by Herophilos, a Greek anatomist living in Alexandria, who incorrectly concluded that...
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Alexandria School of Medicine (section Herophilos)
and doctors of the Alexandria School were Herophilos and Erasistratus.[citation needed] Although Herophilos (c. 300 BC) is considered to be the founder...
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ancient Greece started under Ptolemaic kings due to their link to Egypt. Herophilos, through his work by studying dissected human corpses in Alexandria, is...
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called Φλέβες, phlebes. The word arteria then referred to the windpipe. Herophilos was the first to describe anatomical differences between the two types...
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saint of Chalcedon Boethus of Chalcedon (2nd century BC), Greek sculptor Herophilos (2nd century BC), Greek physician Phaleas of Chalcedon (4th century BC)...
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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...
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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...
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tradition. Praxagoras theorized that blood traveled through the veins, while Herophilos and Erasistratus performed dissections and vivisections of humans and...
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one of the most accomplished of all medical researchers of antiquity Herophilos, physician, one of the earliest anatomists Dioscorides, physician, pharmacologist...
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the difference between arteries and veins. Also in the 4th century BCE, Herophilos and Erasistratus produced more accurate anatomical descriptions based...
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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...
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and human experimentation. Celsus discusses, for example, the case of Herophilos and Erasistratos, who he asserts practised vivisection. In the treatment...
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of them in historical review. Hippocrates (the "father of medicine"), Herophilos, Erasistratus and later Galen studied at the temple of Amenhotep, and...
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with laurel wreath is probably of Emperor Tiberius. The work is signed Herophilos Dioskourid[ou] ('Herophilus, son of Dioscorides'). The colour of the glass...
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lived around the 1st century BC. He was a follower of the teachings of Herophilos, and studied at the celebrated Herophilean school at the village of Men-Carus...
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ailments - instead of the reproductive physiology that was studied under Herophilos. von Staden, Heinrich (1989). Herophilus: The Art of Medicine in Early...
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Theophrastos (or Theophrastus) began the systematic study of botany. c. 300 BC – Herophilos dissected the human body. c. 50–70 AD – Historia Naturalis by Pliny the...
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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...
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phone calls, or objects that are normally unavailable to prisoners. Herophilos of Chalcedon was reputed by Celcus, among others, to have vivisected prisoners...
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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...
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sculptor Praxiteles ends his active career in Athens (approximate date). Herophilos, Greek physician and first anatomist (d. 280 BC) Hicetas of Syracuse,...
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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...
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Slightly later, in the early 3rd century BC, the Hellenistic physician Herophilos employed a portable clepsydra on his house visits in Alexandria for measuring...
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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...
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