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by Answers101 on March 4th, 2006

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Who was the first scientist to study human anatomy?

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  • by luckydoc on June 5th, 2006

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    Menes,(of Egyptian civilisation about 3400B.C )
    was the first person to write an anatomy manual. later, in about 800 B.C., Homer described the anatomy of wounds, followed by Hippocrates, who is known as the father of medicine., Aristotle(384-322B.C) was the founder of comparative anatomy.

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  • by Alatea on March 4th, 2006

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    Early in the 3rd century BC two surgeons in Alexandria, Herophilus and Erasistratus, make the "first scientific studies" designed to discover the workings of human anatomy.

    The cost of their contribution to science would be considered too high in modern times (they acquire much of their information from vivisection of convicted criminals). But Celsus, a Roman writer on medical history, energetically justifies the suffering of the criminals as providing 'remedies for innocent people of all future ages'.

    Alcmaeon is the first scientist known to have practised dissection in his researches. His aim is not anatomical, for his interest lies in trying to trying to find the whereabouts of human intelligence. But in the course of his researches he makes the first scientific discoveries in the field of anatomy.

    The subsequent Greek theory, subscribed to even by Aristotle, is that the heart is the seat of intelligence. Alcmaeon reasons that since a blow to the head can affect the mind, in concussion, this must be where reason lies. In dissecting corpses to pursue this idea, he observes passages linking the brain with the eyes (the optic nerves) and the back of the mouth with the ears (Eustachian tubes).

    http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=aa05

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