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None Erasistratus. 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 arteri ….
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.
- c. 304 BC
- Hellenistic Greece
- c. 250 BC
- Physician
Dec 31, 2010 · The life of Herophilus as an anatomist, as successful as it were, was not short of controversy. Later physicians such as Cornelius Celsus and Galen charged both Herophilus and his contemporary, Erasistratus, with performing vivisection on condemned criminals awarded to them by the rulers of Alexandria ( Magner 2005 ).
- 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, Erasistratus, and the birth of neuroscience - The Lancet. Department of Medical History | Volume 354, ISSUE 9191, P1719-1720, November 13, 1999. Download Full Issue.
- Adrian Wills
- 1999
Erasistratus was his contemporary. Together, they worked at a medical school in Alexandria that is said to have drawn people from all over the ancient world due to Herophilos's fame. His works are lost but were much quoted by Galen in the second century AD.
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 ...
May 29, 2018 · A very important factor in persuading Erasistratus to adopt the latter theory must have been the influence of such doctors as Diocles, Praxagoras, and Herophilus, in whose medical theory the pneuma doctrine plays so fundamental a role and who were themselves either directly or at least indirectly influenced by Peripatetic teachings.
