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- Found that the brain was responsible for perception
- Renowned writer and physician
- Died in 400 BCE
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- First to describe many diseases/medical conditions
- First to believe diseases were caused naturally
- First documented chest surgeon
- Physician
- Died in 370 BC
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- Emphasized use of experimental method in medicine
- Deduced veins only carry blood
- Differentiated between arteries and veins
- Measured a pulse using a water clock
- Proposed the brain housed intelligence
- Dissected human cadavers
- Differentiated between and placed importance on cerebrum and cerebellum
- Discovered different sections of the eye
- Differentiated between nerves and blood vessels. Also between motor and sensory nerves.
- Died in 280 BC
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- Put great emphasis on clinical observation
- Believed in the healing powers of nature
- Believed in using the treatment of opposites
- Extended his knowledge by dissecting pigs and apes. He studied their bone structure and muscles.
- Died in 210 AD Rome, Italy
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- Father of paleontology
- Originator of the cross sectional anatomy
- Research on the brain led to the discoveries in neuroanatomy and neurophysiology
- Did human dissections
- Created lifelike drawings of every aspect of the human form
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- Father of modern anatomy
- His book De Humani Corporis Fabrica(based on human dissection) transformed anatomy into a subject that relied on observations taken directly from human dissections
- Did hands on dissections as a primary teaching tool
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- First known physician to describe completely and in detail the systematic circulation and properties of blood being pumped to the brain and body by the heart
- Knowledge came from observations he made of blood flowing through the veins and arteries of living animals he cut open
- Died June 3, 1657 in London
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- Wrote a treatise on surgical anatomy and introduced new terms
- Extensively studied the perineum and the inguinal ligament
- Professor of anatomy, surgery, and physiology at Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
- Surgeon/physician
- Died on Nov. 16, 1843
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- French physician
- Father of clinical auscultation
- Invented he stethoscope in 1816
- Learned through lectures
- Did private practices
- Became known for his studies of amenorrhea, the prostate gland, and tubercle lesions
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- Responsible for writing Anatomy
- Discovered nerves in the human eye
- Was an anatomist and surgeon
