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Period: 540 BCE to 500 BCE
Alcmaeon
Physician - Indentified the brain as the seat of understanding from perception. -
Period: 460 BCE to 370 BCE
Hippocrates
Physician - He greatly advanced clinical medicine and established medicine as a profession. -
Period: 335 BCE to 280 BCE
Herophilus
Anatomist - He explored the flow of blood from the heart through the arteries and practiced dissections. -
Period: 130 BCE to 210 BCE
Claudius Galen
Physician - Learned urine is formed in kidney, arteries carry blood and crated illustrations of human dissections. -
Period: 1270 to 1326
Mondino de Luzzi
utions to the field by reintroducing the practice of public dissection of human cadavers and writing the first modern anatomical text. -
Period: Apr 15, 1452 to May 2, 1519
Leonardo Da Vinci
Anatomist - Used great detail and proportion to create anatomical sketches. -
Period: 1514 to 1562
Andreas Vesalius
Anatomist and Physician - He created detailed illustrations for students and bloodletting for treatments. -
Period: Apr 1, 1578 to
William Harvey
Anatomist and Physician - Described systemic circulation and properties of blood being pumped to the brain and body by the heart. -
Period: to
Rene Laennec
Physician - Invented the stethoscope and helped diagnose various chest conditions. -
Period: to
Henry Gray
Anatomist - Made drawings and books from dissections and found out the structure and use of the spleen.