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200
Egypt
They took out the first approaches to the human anatomy and physiology -
200
Galeno
Galen found that arteries contained blood, instead of air as had been the belief to that point. -
300
Galeno
the arterial blood was created by venous blood passing from the left ventricle to the right by passing through 'pores' in the interventricular septum, air passed from the lungs via the pulmonary artery to the left side of the heart. -
300
Galeno
This was one of the first works on anatomy, which mentioned hypothesis of heart function and blood circulation. -
310
Erasistratus
who first described the heart’s valves, and explained that air entered the heart from the lungs where it was transformed into ‘pneuma’, the vital spirit, ‘a most subtle vapor’ to be carried to the body by arteries. -
460
Hippocrates
described the perpetual movement of blood “with courses of rivers returning to their sources after a passage through numerous channels”. -
Nov 1, 600
Sushruta
seems to have possessed knowledge of the arteries -
Jun 4, 750
Herophilus
distinguished veins from arteries but thought that the pulse was a property of arteries themselves. -
May 14, 1025
Avecena
erroneously accepted the Greek notion regarding the existence of a hole in the ventricular septum by which the blood traveled between the ventricles -
Nov 1, 1236
Nafis
Nafis suggests that the blood reaches the right side of the heart and lungs passes through the pulmonary artery and the lungs is mixed with air and then through the left side through the veins where it expands to the entire body. -
Nov 1, 1245
Shaar
primera descripcion de la circulación menor -
Nov 1, 1452
Da Vinci
took great interest in the anatomical structure and physiological workings of the heart. -
Nov 1, 1500
Miguel Servet
Presents the first exhibition about the movement to be more precise, presenting first concepts of gas exchange and pulmonary circulation -
Nov 1, 1514
Vesalius
Vesalius: also possessed a passion for dissection and partook in the illegal, yet common, practice of body- snatching. -
Nov 1, 1537
Aquapendent
published “De V enarum Osteolis” which examined the valves of veins, he aptly described the valves as ‘the little doors of the veins’ -
Nov 1, 1553
Restitutio
consagradas a describir la circulación menor -
Nov 1, 1559
Colombo
De re anatomic -
Fabrizi
Describio las válvulas venosas. -
Huang ti
La sangre fluye en un circuito sin parar nunca. -
Edwin Smith
El secreto del medico: conocimiento del corazón y de sus movimientos -
Ceslapino
Primer tratado de cardiologiañ. -
Harvey
Harvey, scientifically demonstrates the functioning of the heart pump. It spells out the blood circulation, all based on the scientific method and research. -
Aristoteles
Primum vivens, ultimum moriens. -
Cornelio
Mortuorum corpora incidere discetibus necessarium. -
Swammerdam
used the microscope to explain the shape of the red blood cell and the capillary networks that form the connection between arterioles and venules -
Aselli
descrubio las relaciones existentes entre los vasos quilíferos y las glándulas linfáticas del mesenterio del perro. -
Pecquet
descubrió en el perro el conducto torácico,que constituye el lugar de convergencias. -
Rudbeck
identifico los vasos linfáticos del hígado y su desembocadura en el conducto torácico. -
Malpighi
capillaries that proved fundamental to our understanding of the vascular system in the brain and cord. -
Ruysch
dio una completa descripción de las válvulas de los vasos linfáticos -
Guglielmo
elaboro la primera tabla anatómica completa de los vasos quilíferos del hombre. -
Malpighi
His main contribution was the observation of the capillaries, arteriovenous communications of the lung and bronchial ramifications -
Thebesius
indico los vasos que hacen comunicar las arterias y venas. -
Salgado
discute la fisiología del sistema cardiaco y el origen de la sangre -
Gusmano
descubrió el hierro en la sangre. -
Haller
observo otros globulos incoloros mas grandes -
Spallanzani
Diferencio la presencia de globulos rojos en vertebrados e invertebrados -
Bohemia
Detect the presence of special fibers in the inner walls of the heart which had electrical impulses that caused the contraction of the heart muscle. -
Courtnat
their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system."