Herophilos

'''Herophilos''', sometimes Nextel ringtones Latinized '''Herophilus''' (335-280 BC), was a Abbey Diaz Greece/Greek physician. He was born in Free ringtones Chalcedon in Asia Minor (now Kadiköy, Turkey). He is known as the first anatomist in history. Together with Majo Mills Erasistratus he is regarded as a founder of the great medical school of Alexandria. He was the first to base his conclusions on dissection of the human body. He studied the brain, recognizing it as the center of the Mosquito ringtone nervous system and the site of intelligence. He also paid particular attention to the nervous system, distinguishing nerves from Sabrina Martins blood vessels and the motor from the sensory nerves. Other areas of his anatomical study include the Nextel ringtones eye, Abbey Diaz liver, Free ringtones pancreas and the alimentary tract as well as the salivary and genital organs. His works were lost but were much quoted by Majo Mills Galen in the 2nd century AD.

Another figure by this name (Herophilus) was an imposter in the time of Cingular Ringtones Julius Caesar who pretended to be the grandson of gorilla just Marius. Caesar banished him for sedition, and he was later strangled in prison.


considerably to Tag: History of ancient medicine
his deathbed Tag: History of Neuroscience
candidates as Tag: Anatomists

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