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Greek: practical medicine, especially diet and nutrition Erasistratus: 3rd century BCE: Greek: founded a school of anatomy in Alexandria Heraclides of Tarentum: 2nd century BCE: Greek: physician of the Empiric school: Herophilus: 3rd century BCE: Greek: deemed to be the first anatomist: Hicesius: 1st century BCE: Greek: head of a medical school ...
Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus [2] (Greek: Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; September 129 – c. 216 AD), often anglicized as Galen (/ ˈ ɡ eɪ l ən /) or Galen of Pergamon, [3] was a Roman and Greek physician, surgeon, and philosopher.
Herophilos (/ h ɪ ˈ r ɒ f ɪ l ə s /; Ancient Greek: Ἡρόφιλος; 335–280 BC), sometimes Latinised Herophilus, was a Greek physician regarded as one of the earliest anatomists. Born in Chalcedon, he spent the majority of his life in Alexandria. He was the first scientist to systematically perform scientific dissections of human ...
The Empiric school of medicine (Empirics, Empiricists, or Empirici, Greek: Ἐμπειρικοί) was a school of medicine founded in Alexandria the middle of the third century BC. [1] The school was a major influence on ancient Greek and Roman medicine.
6th-century Greek physicians (1 P) B. ... Pages in category "Ancient Greek physicians" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
Agapius (Ancient Greek: Ἀγάπιος) was an ancient physician of Alexandria, who taught and practiced medicine at Byzantium with great success and reputation, and acquired immense riches. Of his date it can only be determined, that he must have lived before the end of the fifth century AD, as Damascius (from whom Photius , Bibliotheca cod ...
Erasistratus (/ ˌ ɛ r ə ˈ s ɪ s t r ə t ə s /; Ancient Greek: Ἐρασίστρατος; c. 304 – c. 250 BC) was a Greek anatomist and royal physician under Seleucus I Nicator of Syria. Along with fellow physician Herophilus, he founded a school of anatomy in Alexandria, where they carried out anatomical research
Ancient Greek medicine was a compilation of theories and practices that were constantly expanding through new ideologies and trials. The Greek term for medicine was iatrikē (Ancient Greek: ἰατρική). Many components were considered in ancient Greek medicine, intertwining the spiritual with