- Herophilus by James Robertson
Fl. 300 B.C., Greek anatomist, called by some the father of scientific anatomy. A contemporary of Erasistratus at Alexandria, he made public dissections, comparing human and animal morphology. He studied the structure of the brain (which he regarded as the site of intelligence) and the spinal cord and distinguished between motor ...
- Aulus Cornelius Celsus by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
... school as Herophilus and Erasistratus. De medicina. Is the only medical work in Latin that has survived from the ancient era until our time.Celsus’ contemporaries called him the Roman Hippocrates; because of the purity and elegance of his language, he also was known as the Cicero of medicine. Celsus worked out a scientific terminology and identified four ...
- Celsus, Aulus Cornelius by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
... school as Herophilus and Erasistratus. De medicina. Is the only medical work in Latin that has survived from the ancient era until our time.Celsus’ contemporaries called him the Roman Hippocrates; because of the purity and elegance of his language, he also was known as the Cicero of medicine. Celsus worked out a scientific terminology and identified four ...