HEROPHILUS

hĭrŏfˈələs, fl. 300 b.c., Greek anatomist, called by some the father of scientific anatomy. A contemporary of Erasistratus at Alexandria, he made public dissections, comparing human and animal morphology. He studied the structure of the brain (which he regarded as the site of intelligence) and the spinal cord and distinguished between motor and sensory nerves. He also investigated the eye, the alimentary canal (he is credited with naming the duodenum), the reproductive organs, and the arteries and veins.

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books on: Herophilus  - 205 results

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Dictionary of World Biography: The Ancient World - Vol. 1
Book by Frank N. Magill; Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998
Subjects: World History
...other subjects apparently explored by Herophilus. The church father Tertullian implied...doxas (Against Common Opinions), Herophilus also dealt with gynecological and obstetrical...hypothetical nature of causal explanations, Herophilus tried to determine the causes of many...
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Ancient Medicine
Book by Vivian Nutton; Routledge, 2004
Subjects: Medicine, Ancient, Physicians--History
...Galen, On Sects 23; p. 92 Westerink = Herophilus, T 63b-c von Staden 1989. Agnellus...33 Tertullian, On the Soul 10, 4 = Herophilus, T. 66 von Staden 1989. 34 Lloyd...condemned criminals. 35 Dates for both Herophilus and Erasistratus are imprecise (see...
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Miracles in Greco-Roman Antiquity: A Sourcebook
Book by Wendy C. S.J. Cotter; Routledge, 1999
Subjects: Greece--Religion, Miracles, Rome--Religion
...1. Marcellus 4 Supports the View of Herophilus 5 that Medicaments are The Hands of...say, Gaius Julius Callistus, that Herophilus, who was once held to be among the...Erasistratus 8 Exposes the Absurdity of Herophilus Opinion Plutarch, Quaestiones Symposicae...
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Ptolemaic Alexandria
Book by P. M. Fraser; Clarendon Press, 1972
Subjects: Alexandria (Egypt)--Civilization
...little opposition in antiquity, and that Herophilus and indeed most Alexandrians, and Roman...early Alexandrians, and Celsus regards Herophilus as the main representative of humoral...contradict this. 124 The lesson of Herophilus adherence to this theory is that medicine...
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From Aristotle to Augustine
Book by David Furley; Routledge, 1999
Subjects: Augustine--Saint, Bishop Of Hippo
Kudlien 10.56 saw Herophilus as an important figure in the history...a cause, and still others, like Herophilus, accept it on a hypothetical basis...T 58 VS) What, then, does Herophilus say? Whether or not there is a cause...
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journal articles on: Herophilus  - 14 results

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Erotic Dreams and Nightmares from Antiquity to the Present *
Journal article by Charles Stewart; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 8, 2002
Subjects: Anthropological research--Evaluation, Dreams--Research, Nightmares--Research, Repression (Psychology)--Research, Sex research--Psychological aspects
...century BCE Alexandrian physician Herophilus classification of dreams reveals that...transition from paganism to Christianity: Herophilus says chat some dreams are inspired by...identification cannot be correct, since Herophilus pointedly differentiates them from the...
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Bees, Honey and Health in Antiquity
Journal article by L. Cilliers, F.P. Retief; Akroterion, 2008
Subjects: Ancient civilization, Ancient medicine, Bee breeding--History, Bee culture--History, Beekeeping--History, Civilization, Ancient, Honey--Health aspects, Honey--Usage, Medicine, Ancient
...important foodstuff but also a medicine. In his book On eyes Herophilus prescribes an eye ointment for blindness which contained honey...Mycenaeans. London: The Folio Society. Von Staden, H 1994. Herophilus. Cambridge: University Press. Welles, C B (trans...
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What Part of 'Know' Don't You Understand?
Journal article by Deborah Brown; The Monist, Vol. 88, 2005
Subjects: Humor--Analysis, Humorous works--Criticism and interpretation, Wit and humor--Analysis
...shoulder, Diodorus found himself at the door of the physician, Herophilus, who offered him only the consolation of philosophy. "Your...explaining why jokes that raise philosophical puzzles, like Herophilus, withstand the test of time. Philosophical puzzles are rarely...
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Getting to the Source
Journal article by Karen Offen; Journal of Women's History, Vol. 9, 1997
Subjects: Women--History
...unhappiness of her sister citizens, took it upon herself to disguise herself and went, in mens clothing, to the famous school of Herophilus to study medicine and especially the art of midwifery. Afterwards, having let it be known to the women of Athens, she became...
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Galen: on Antecedent Causes
Journal article by Vivian Nutton; Medical History, Vol. 44, 2000
...Galen lays out a theory of causation, more in the form of a polemic against Erasistratus and, at the end of the treatise, Herophilus than as a coherent exposition. This does not make for easy reading, although the introduction summarizes the general argument...
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Alexandria's Library Rides Again
Magazine article by Adrian Mourby; History Today, Vol. 50, March 2000
Subjects: Alexandria, Egypt--Libraries, Library buildings--Egypt
...water with a screw while working at the library, and it can still be seen in use by the fellahin around the city today. Herophilus conducted the first dissection of the human body in the library, and Hipparchus began the science of astronomy here. It...
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A Greatness Reborn
Magazine article by Brian Trent; The Humanist, Vol. 64, September 2004
Subjects: Libraries, Middle East--History, Middle East--Political aspects, Mubarak, Hosni--Political activity
...of his bath at the climax of this epiphany. The field of medicine saw extraordinary growth from Alexandrian scientists. Herophilus was an anatomist at the library; his research led him to chart the purpose and function of all bodily organs, including...
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Modern Egypt Revives Ancient 'Great Library'
Magazine article by Erling Hoh; Insight on the News, Vol. 17, June 25, 2001
Subjects: Egypt--Libraries, Library buildings--Egypt
...that a team of 70 rabbis translated the Pentateuch of the Old Testament from Hebrew into Greek -- the Septuagint -- and Herophilus dissected the human body and concluded that the brain, not the heart, was the seat of intelligence. Then, mysteriously...
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All the Books in the World
Magazine article; UN Chronicle, Vol. 26, June 1989
Subjects: Alexandria, Egypt--Libraries, Libraries--History, Library buildings--Design and construction, UNESCO--Planning, United Nations--Economic assistance
...thinkers of the time-Euclid, the inventor of geometry; Erastothenes, who calculated the circumference of the earth; Herophilus, who established the rules of anatomy and physiology; Aristarchus and Dionysius Thrax, who codified grammar; and the founder...
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Congestive Heart Failure: Pathophysiology and Treatment
Magazine article by I. Wade Waters; Drug Topics, Vol. 138, July 11, 1994
Subjects: Cardiovascular disease, Continuing education, Health care, Pharmaceuticals, Statistical data, United States
...are nothing in themselves, if not properly used, but the very hands of the gods, if employed with reason and prudence. -Herophilus (floruit 300 B.C.) GENERAL APPROACHES Since the major cause of heart failure is believed to be closely associated with...
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newspaper articles on: Herophilus  - 3 results

 
 
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Working Class Heroine; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 22, 2011
...claimed the heart was the organ of thought and sensation and that the brain was merely a radiator designed to cool it. Herophilus (335-280 BC) and Erasistratus (304-250 BC), founders of a great medical school in Alexandria, were the first scientists...
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Egypt Revives Its 'Great Library'
Newspaper article by Erling Hoh; The Washington Times, May 16, 2001
...There, a team of 70 rabbis translated the Pentateuch of the Old Testament from Hebrew into Greek - the Septuagint. And Herophilus dissected the human body and concluded that the brain, not the heart, is the seat of intelligence. TALES OF ITS END ABOUND...
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Working-Class Heroine; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 22, 2011
Subjects: Women's Social and Political Union
...claimed the heart was the organ of thought and sensation and that the brain was merely a radiator designed to cool it. Herophilus (335-280BC) and Erasistratus (304-250BC), founders of a great medical school in Alexandria, were the first scientists...


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encyclopedia articles on: Herophilus  - 4 results

 
 
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Herophilus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HEROPHILUS hirof l s, fl. 300 b.c., Greek anatomist, called by some the father of scientific anatomy. A contemporary of Erasistratus...
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Alexandria , City, Egypt
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...many scholars, including Aristarchus of Samothrace , the collator of the Homeric texts; Euclid , the mathematician; and Herophilus , the anatomist, who founded a medical school there. Julius Caesar temporarily occupied (47 b.c.) the city while pursuing...
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Erasistratus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...dissections, he observed the convolutions of the brain, named the trachea, and distinguished (as did his contemporary Herophilus) between motor and sensory nerves. He also devised a catheter and a calorimeter...
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Surgery
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...suggested by Hippocrates , a competent surgeon and diagnostician of that time. Other notable early surgeons were Erasistratus and Herophilus of the medical school at Alexandria, and Galen , whose numerous treatises were long influential. The surgical and sanitary...


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