ANP 300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Neurocranium, Mediastinum, Peritoneal Cavity
31 Jan 2017
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Hippocrates father of medicine: accurately describe disease symptoms and thought that a physician should treat the body as a whole rather than a collection of individual parts. Herophilus father of anatomy: the first to publicly dissect and compare human and animal bodies, based his conclusions on human dissection. Galen of pergamum prince of physicians: stressed the importance of experimentation in medicine, his anatomic treatises are translated into arabic by islamic scholars, then, arabic into latin after 1200 ad. Andreas vesalius reformer of anatomy: promoted the idea of living anatomy, wrote de humani corporis fabrica , which was the first anatomically accurate medical textbook. William harvey: an anatomical study of the motion of the heart and the blood in animals . Described how blood was pumped from the heart to the body and then back to the heart: essays on the generation of animals . Anatomy: the study of structure: derived from greek, and means to cut apart .
