ACCTG 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Gustav Fritsch, Luigi Galvani, Sleepwalking
Document Summary
Edwin smith papyrus = documents from ancient egypt that contains short descriptions of the symptoms and treatment of different brain injury it was found in 1862 and was presumably written around 3000 b. c. Illustrated that practising physicians rapidly made a link between injuries to the brain and mental + behavioural consequences. But the existence of the papyrus did not imply that knowledge contained in it was widespread and most scholars were convinced that the heart was the seat of the soul. The roles of the heart and brain in ancient greece. Plato: soul divided in 3 parts: brain: reasoning immortal, separated from the body, controlled the body, heart: sensation mortal, liver: appetite. Aristotle: heart as the seat of the soul: function of the brain: counterbalance heat of heart functional unit (brain > cold) Further insights into the anatomy and functioning of the nervous system in the. Galen"s view remained the norm until into 18th century.
