- Erasistratus by Tyler Hodges
... theory of circulation (veins to arteries). Studying from dissections, he observed the convolutions of the brain, named the trachea, and distinguished (as did his contemporary Herophilus) between motor and sensory nerves. He also devised a catheter and a calorimeter.
- Aulus Cornelius Celsus by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
... of the Alexandrian 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 ...
- Celsus, Aulus Cornelius by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
... of the Alexandrian 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 ...
- Erasistratus by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
... of medicine, the other being Herophilus. Erasistratus made a series of anatomical and physiological discoveries through vivisection and the dissection of corpses. He was particularly interested in the brain, in which he sought the source of all human activity. He described the dura mater, the pia mater, the external appearance of the cerebellum, and the nerve tracts ...
- Alexandria by Vivian Taylor
... , the mathematician; and Herophilus, the anatomist, who founded a medical school there.Julius Caesar temporarily occupied (47 B.C.) the city while pursuing Pompey, and Octavian (later Augustus) entered it (30 B.C.) after the suicide of Antony and Cleopatra. Alexandria formally became part of the Roman Empire in 30 B.C. It was the greatest of the Roman provincial ...