Alcmaeon of Croton
Alcmaeon of CrotonAlcmaeon of Croton lived in the city of Crotone in Magna Graecia (now southern Italy) around the beginning of the 5th Century BC Figure 1. He …
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Aristotle
AristotleAristotle the greatest natural philosopher of the ancient world. Born in 384 B.C. (Figure 1), Aristotle was a student of Plato (who believed in brain s…
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Asclepius God of Medicine
Asclepius God of MedicineAsclepius or Hepius is a hero and god of medicine in ancient Greek religion and mythology (Figure 1). He is the son of Apollo and Coron…
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Erasistratus
ErasistratusErasistratus was a physician of the Alexandrian era (c.305 BC – c.240 BC) Figure 1, who, together with Herophilus founded the School of Anatomy of A…
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Esagil-kin-apli
Esagil-kin-apli Esagil-kin-apli was a Babylonian physician who served the king during the first Babylonian dynasty early in the 2nd millennium BC (around 1069-1…
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Galen
GalenAelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus (129 A.D. – c. 200/c. 216), sometimes known as Galen of Pergamon, born in the ancient city of Pergamon (present-day Berg…
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Herophilus Dissecting Human Cadavers
Herophilus Dissecting Human CadaversHerophilus (335–280 BC), was a Greek physician deemed to be among the earliest anatomists. Born in Chalcedon, he spent the m…
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Hippocrates
HippocratesHippocrates of Kos (c. 460 – c. 370 BC), also known as Hippocrates II, was a Greek physician of the Age of Pericles (Classical Greece), who is consid…
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Ibn-Sina (Avicenna)
Ibn-Sina (Avicenna)Avicenna (Ibn-Sina; 980-1037) is considered as a father of modern medicine (Figure 1). It was he who first recognized 'physiological psycholo…
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Imhotep
ImhotepThe oldest surgical texts which describe 48 surgical cases, 27 of which are related to head injuries. It is believed that this papyrus was found in the t…
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Plato The Greatest Philosophers of Antiquity
Plato The Greatest Philosophers of AntiquityPlato (424–347 BC) was an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platoni…
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