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... Herophilus and Erasistratus , were among the greatest it produced , and they carried the science of human anatomy to the highest point then attainable . There are , indeed , traces of this study in older times , but these may safely be ...
... Herophilus and Erasistratus , were among the greatest it produced , and they carried the science of human anatomy to the highest point then attainable . There are , indeed , traces of this study in older times , but these may safely be ...
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... Herophilus devoted great attention , comparing the different varieties to the rhythms of music , and giving them special names , one of which , the leaping or goat - like pulse ( pulsus caprizans s . dicrotus ) , still survives.3 He ...
... Herophilus devoted great attention , comparing the different varieties to the rhythms of music , and giving them special names , one of which , the leaping or goat - like pulse ( pulsus caprizans s . dicrotus ) , still survives.3 He ...
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... Herophilus and Erasistratus , and his teaching , which brought down the philosophy of Plato from heaven to earth , from the ideal to the real , made it at least more suited for that art which Ideals with human bodies . As the result ...
... Herophilus and Erasistratus , and his teaching , which brought down the philosophy of Plato from heaven to earth , from the ideal to the real , made it at least more suited for that art which Ideals with human bodies . As the result ...
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Introductory | 1 |
The Revival of Learning | 4 |
Medicine in Prehistoric Times | 6 |
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