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510 BCE
Alcmaeon
How they gained their knowledge: he studied animals and humans and dissected animal eyes. Contribution: he studied the senses and had and theory on the withdrawal of blood Photo: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gastone_Celesia/publication/230796337/figure/fig2/AS:300401787195393@1448632775162/Idealized-portraits-of-Alcmaeon-The-image-of-Alcmaeon-on-the-right-half-of-the-figure-is.png -
Period: 460 BCE to 370 BCE
Hippocrates
How they gained their knowledge: dissection Contribution: the understating of musloskeletal structure as well as organs and kidney Photo: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Hippocrates.jpg/220px-Hippocrates.jpg -
Period: 335 BCE to 280 BCE
Herophilus
How they gained their knowledge: he dissected the body and wrote on his studies Contribution: from his studys, he wrote about and published opthalmology, midwifery, pulse, therapeutics, and dieticts while investigating the brain, eye, nerves, vascular, and genitals. Photo: https://www.outlanderanatomy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/B-Herophilus-e1494181955580.jpg -
Period: 130 to 210
Claudius Galen
How they gained their knowledge: He did experiments and dissected. Contribution: He studied human moods and observed the circulatory system and the blood. Photo: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Galenus.jpg -
Period: 1452 to 1519
Leonardo da Vinci
How they gained their knowledge: he used his ability to draw to create drawings and dissected human bodies. Contribution: his notes and drawings gave an accurate description of the human spine and liver. He also developed techniques in dissecting. Photo: http://www.leonardodavinci.net/images/leonardo-da-vinci.jpg -
Period: 1514 to 1564
Andreas Vesalius
How they gained their knowledge: he dissected and did surgeries. Contribution: he published books with detained drawings and gave public demonstrations as well as the circulatory valves. He is known as the founder of modern anatomy. Photo: https://cdn.britannica.com/s:700x450/85/122085-004-FEB94145.jpg -
Period: 1578 to
William Harvey
How they gained their knowledge: dissected and observed human bodies and animal bodies as well as testing his theories. Contribution: he discovered the circulation of blood and wrote a book called “Anatomical Excersise on the Motion of Blood and Heart in Animals”. He was also able to distinguish veins vs arteries. Photo: https://todayinsci.com/H/Harvey_William/HarveyWilliam300px.jpg -
Period: to
Mademoiselle Marie-Catherine Biheron
How they gained their knowledge: she hired people to steal cadavers for dissection and made anatomical models. Contribution: she made models of the body and aided the delivery of a child’s head. Photo: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Anna_von_Tirol.jpg/300px-Anna_von_Tirol.jpg -
Period: to
Rene Laennec
How they gained their knowledge: he observed how children would play with a stick and used that to create the stethoscope and using that to find new chest conditions. Contribution: he invented the stethoscope in 1816 which is used to help diagnose chest conditions and had an understanding of peritonitis and cirrhosis, Photo: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Rene-Theophile-Hyacinthe_Laennec2.jpg/220px-Rene-Theophile-Hyacinthe_Laennec2.jpg -
Period: to
Henry Gray
How they gained their knowledge: he studied all on his own and made his own dissections. Contribution: he wrote a book and worked mostly on the nerves and the human eye Photo: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Gray_bw_photo_portrait.jpg
