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  1. Alcmaeon of Croton, an ancient Greek philosopher, physician, and scientist who lived during the 5th century BCE, is widely regarded as one of the founders of the medical tradition in ancient Greece and made some significant contributions to the fields of anatomy and physiology and the overall field of medicine as well.

  2. Apr 10, 2003 · Alcmaeon of Croton was an early Greek medical writer and philosopher-scientist. His exact date, his relationship to other early Greek philosopher-scientists, and whether he was primarily a medical writer/physician or a typical Presocratic cosmologist, are all matters of controversy.

  3. Alcmaeon (flourished 6th century bc) was a Greek philosopher and physiologist of the academy at Croton (now Crotone, southern Italy). He was the first person recorded to have practiced dissection of human bodies for research purposes. He may also have been the first to attempt vivisection.

    • The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  4. Feb 2, 2019 · Among the first physicians and physiologists at the pre-Hippocratic medicine with contradictions and oscillating doctrines was Alcmaeon from Croton in the 6th century BC. For many, he shared as the father of scientific medicine.

    • Luigi Santacroce, Ioannis Alexandros Charitos, Skender Topi, Lucrezia Bottalico
    • 2019
  5. Alcmaeon of Croton (sixth-fifth century BC), a pre-Socratic physician-philosopher, introduced the concept that mind and soul are located in the brain. Alcmaeon made observations about...

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  6. Sep 4, 2012 · Alcmaeon of Croton (sixth–fifth century BC), a pre-Socratic physician–philosopher, introduced the concept that mind and soul are located in the brain. Alcmaeon made observations about seeing, hearing, tasting, and smelling and distinguished perception from understanding.

  7. Wrote a philosophical book dedicated to a group of Pythagoreans (see pythagoras (1) ), and known to *Aristotle and *Theophrastus. It mostly concerned the nature of man. Alcmaeon explained the human condition by the interplay of opposites, e.g. health as ‘equal rights’ of hot and cold, wet and dry, etc. , disease as ‘monarchy’ of one of ...

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