Author: Heinrich von Staden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521236461
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Herophilus, a contemporary of Euclid, practiced medicine in Alexandria in the third century B.C., and seems to have been the first Western scientist to dissect the human body. He made especially impressive contributions to many branches of anatomy. Von Staden assembles the fragmentary evidence concerning one of the more important scientists of ancient Greece.