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Herophilus: The Art of Medicine in Early Alexandria: Edition, Translation and Essays

Herophilus: The Art of Medicine in Early Alexandria: Edition, Translation and Essays
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  • ISBN-13: 9780521041782
  • ISBN: 0521041783
  • Publication Date: 2007
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

AUTHOR

Herophilus, Staden, Heinrich Von

SUMMARY

Herophilus, a contemporary of Euclid, practiced medicine in Alexandria in the third century B.C., and seems to have been the first Western scientist to dissect the human body. He made especially impressive contributions to many branches of anatomy. Von Staden assembles the fragmentary evidence concerning one of the more important scientists of ancient Greece.Herophilus is the author of 'Herophilus: The Art of Medicine in Early Alexandria: Edition, Translation and Essays', published 2007 under ISBN 9780521041782 and ISBN 0521041783.

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