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Herophilus (c335 - c280 B.C.) was the founder of the school of anatomy of Alexandria, and was among the first physicians to conduct anatomical dissections in public. He made extraordinary anatomical discoveries and developed standards for measuring the flow of blood from the heart through the arteries.
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Erasistratus (/ ˌɛrəˈsɪstrətəs /; Greek: Ἐρασίστρατος; c. 304 – c. 250 BC) was a Greek anatomist and royal physician under Seleucus I Nicator of Syria. Along with fellow physician Herophilus, he founded a school of anatomy in Alexandria, where they carried out anatomical research.
Nov 5, 2017 · Two of the city’s most influential medical investigators were Herophilus and Erasistratus, who together made incredible breakthroughs in the fields of anatomy and medicine. Despite their significant contributions, their legacy is shrouded with great controversy and grave accusations; they were accused of the unspeakable: performing ...
Dec 31, 2010 · One of the most stirring controversies in the history of Anatomy is that Herophilus, an ancient Greek anatomist and his younger contemporary, Erasistratus, were accused of performing vivisections of living humans.
- Noel Si-Yang Bay, Boon-Huat Bay
- 10.5115/acb.2010.43.4.280
- 2010
- Anat Cell Biol. 2010 Dec; 43(4): 280-283.
Nov 13, 1999 · Herophilus of Chalcedon (330–260 BC) was a rationalist physician who taught and practised in Ptolemaic Alexandria during a golden period of scientific enquiry. He was born in Chalcedon on the Asiatic side of the Bosporus and may have been apprenticed to Praxagoras of Cos during his medical training.
- Adrian Wills
- 1999
In the first half of the third century B.C, two Greeks, Herophilus of Chalcedon and his younger contemporary Erasistratus of Ceos, became the first and last ancient scientists to perform systematic dissections of human cadavers.
Herophilus was an Alexandrian physician who was an early performer of public dissections on human cadavers, and is often called the father of anatomy. As a member of the well-known scholastic community in the newly founded city of Alexandria during the single, brief period in Greek medical history.
