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He·roph·i·lus

(hĕ-rof'i-lŭs),

Greek physician and anatomist of the Alexandrian school, circa 300 B.C. See: torcular herophili.

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He argues that the classification of Herophilus is a distinctly medical version of the Posidonian approach.

Conflict and emotion in Medea's 'irrational' dream (A.R. 3.616-35)

The heyday of neuro-anatomy dawned when Herophilus and Erasistratus commenced human dissection (probably even vivisection) of condemned criminals, under patronage of the Ptolemaic pharaohs in the newly established city of Alexandria (332 BC).

The nervous system in antiquity

Herophilus conducted the first dissection of the human body in the library, and Hipparchus began the science of astronomy here.

Alexandria's Library Rides Again

The first documented dissections for the study of disease were performed by Alexandrian physicians Herophilus and Erasistratus in about 300 BC.

Forensic Medicine: Matters of Life and Death

The Museum at Alexandria was the site of important early work on anatomy by Herophilus (ca.

Brain

Aristotle's treatise on the soul is duly acknowledged, but the author misses useful and instructive opportunities to consider the Hippocratics and such ancient anatomists as Herophilus (335-380 B.

Vidal, Fernando. The Sciences of the Soul

Erasistratus en conjunto con su maestro y contemporaneo Herophilus, fueron los primeras en hacer disecciones anatomicas en publico y realizaron tambien, vivisecciones de criminales condenados.

Erasistratus of Ceos (310-250 A.C.). Pioneer of the anatomical studies/Erasistratus de Ceos (310-250 A.C.). Pionero de los estudios anatomicos

The anatomical descriptions of Herophilus, in particular, were not improved on for 18 centuries.

The eye in antiquity

Around 300 BC, Herophilus was using dissections to teach anatomy, and he wrote a treatise on human anatomy but paid no attention to abnormalities of structure.

Declining Clinical Autopsy Rates Versus Increasing Medicolegal Autopsy Rates in Halifax, Nova Scotia: Why the Difference? A Historical Perspective

The dissection of human cadavers is a complex topic that can be comprehended only if a number of factors are taken into account, as illustrated by the example of Herophilus of Chalcedon, who was the first dissector in the Western medical tradition.

Herophilus of Chalcedon and the practice of dissection in Hellenistic Alexandria

The resident scholars and those affiliated by correspondence (Archimedes) or as legatees (Galen and Ptolemy) were the originators of axiomatic geometry and what we now refer to as protoscience: for example, Euclid, Herophilus, Erasistratus, Apollonius, Heraclides, Hipparchus, and Aristarchus.

The Waning of the Light: The Eclipse of Philosophy

In this treatise Galen mentions several well-known physicians and philosophers, Empedocles, Hippocrates, Herophilus, Erasistratus, and Chrysippus, as well as the Stoics in general, and, in his elegant preface, the poet Parthenius.