Early Contributors to the Fields of Anatomy and Physiology

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  • Period: 510 BCE to 410 BCE

    Alcmaeon

    First to identified Eustachain tubes
  • Period: 460 BCE to 370 BCE

    Hippocrates

    The Father of medicine released medicine from any kind of religious superstition and established it as a science
  • Period: 335 BCE to 280 BCE

    Herophilus

    Studied cavities of the brain, wrote nine works accounts of eye, lover, pancreas.
  • Period: 130 to 210

    Claudius Galen

    • contributed to medicine
    • contributed to substantial amount to the Hippocratic understanding of pathology
  • Period: 1452 to 1519

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Leonardo da Vinci conducted more than 30 human disections. This research turned into 240+ meticulous drawings as well as 13000 words of notes in “mirror script”
  • Period: 1514 to 1564

    Andreas Vesalius

    Published ‘De Humani corporis Fabrica transformed anatomy to rely on observations. Took up medical practice.
  • Period: 1578 to

    William Harvey

    Detailed systemic circulation
  • Period: to

    Rene Laennec

    (Father of Thoracic medicine) invented the stethoscope. He diagnosed various conditions
  • Period: to

    Henry Gray

    Gray published the first edition of “anatomy”