By Brian lee, mason zhu, and jeffrey seto

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Physiology Pre-Greek and Grecian Times

• By Brian lee, mason zhu, and jeffrey seto

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Asclepius and Acmaeon

• Asclepius first physician
• Acmaeon discovered optic nerve
• Theory of brain and thought

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Hippocrates

• Father of medicine
• The body is a unified system
• Four humours
• First to classify diseases
• Hippocratic oath

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Aristotle

• Claimed heart the origin of nerves
• Identified the heart as most important organ
• First to classify animals according to their
  anatomy

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Herophilus

• First to dissect a human
• Ventricles of the brain
• Classified nerve trunks
• Traced dura mater

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Erasistratus

• Continued systematic investigation begun by
  Herophilus
• Described cerebrum and cerebellum
• Thought nerves to be hollow
• Came up with mechanical explanations to bodily
  processes

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Bibliography

• http//www.greekmedicine.net/whos_who/Hippocrates.
  html
• http//www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/263634/H
  erophilus
• http//scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Erasistr
  atus.html
• http//www.stanford.edu/class/history13/earlyscien
  celab/body/heartpages/heart.html
• http//webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/neurophysio.html