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HEROPHILUS
Herophilus of Chalcedon is the early "Father of Anatomy" and Galen remarked that he was the first to have dissectedhuman and animal bodies.
Pliny states Herophilus was the firstman to seek for the reason of malady by human dissection, and goes on to speak that Pharaoh Ptolemy witnessed some of these dissections. Celsus gave Herophilus credit for using prisoners condemned to die as subjects of learn immediately previous to their recent breath, by order of the sovereign.
He was the first to accurately differentiate nerves, tendons, and arteries from veins. He dividedengine from sensory nerves. He taught that the brain was the place of the intelligence. He recognised pulsations in arteries and counted them with the help of a clepshydra or water-clock. Herophilus gave us the name of the firstpart of the little intestine, the duodenum, which means "12 fingers long." He also named the prostate gland which means "guard" of the bladder. His name is attached to the confluence of the venoussinuses in the occipitalregion of the cerebrum (the torcular of Herophili).
This keen anatomist described the liver, pancreas, salivary glands, chyliferous vessels, and genital organs from which he wrote at leastnine treatises. Is there any wonder that he is referred to as the early Father of Anatomy !
Lived: 300-344 B.C.