ACCTG 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Pineal Gland, Ferdinand Hitzig, Grapheme
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Illustrates how physicians treating wounded soldiers quite early became convinced of the importance of the brain in controlling behaviour. In ancient egypt most scholars were convinced that the heart was the seat of the soul brain efforts to conserve the heart at mummification, while the brain was picked out. The roles of the heart and the brain in anceint greece. Plato: tripartite soul: the highest part: reasoning brain. It came directly from the soul of the universe. Immortal: separated from the body, and it controlled the body, sensation heart, mortal, to avoid it polluting the divine soul, a neck separated the two, lower part: appetite liver far away from the other two. Furthur insights into the anatomy and functioning of the nervous system in the. The continuing primacy of the ventricles: galen"s view remained a norm until the 18th c, andreas vesalius (1514 1564): dissections and extended them to humans.
