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| Legendary doctor and son of Apollo who was believed to perform miraculous cures at healing sanctuaries such as Epidaurus. |
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| Early Greek physician who was the first to propose that health is an equilibrium (isonomia) of powers in the body, while disease is caused by the supremacy (monarchia) of one power |
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| Greek pre-Socratic philosopher cosmogenic theory of the four classical elements. Love and strife. Soul and reincarnation. putrefaction (sepsis) |
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| Greek doctor who founded a medical school on his native island of Cos and to whom a large number of early medical writings used to be attributed, including On the Sacred Disease, the Oath, the Epidemics, etc. |
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| Greek philosopher who founded the Lyceum, and whose biological works contain meticulous descriptions of the anatomy of over 500 species of animals |
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| English physician who was the first in the Western world to describe correctly and in exact detail the systemic circulation and properties of blood being pumped around the body by the heart. |
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was a Greek physician. He was the first scientist to systematically perform scientific dissections of human cadavers and is deemed to be the first anatomist. Together with Erasistratus he is regarded as a founder of the great medical school of Alexandria.
horn like, cornea. grapelike, uvea. choroid. netlike, retina. |
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| Greek physician at Alexandria who gave mechanical explanations of physiological processes, including an accurate account of the nature and function of the heart’s valves. |
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| He attempted to build a new theory of disease, based on the flow of atoms through pores in the body. His treatments sought to restore harmony through the use of diet, exercise, and bathing. first individual to perform an elective (non-emergency) tracheotomy, |
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| Roman author of an encyclopedia of which the section De Re Medica (On Medical Matters) has survived. |
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| Author of the influential work Gynecology, which included detailed instructions for delivering babies. |
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| Doctor who was physician to the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius and who recommended that logic, physics, and ethics be part of a physician’s training. |
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| e explains how reality is one, change is impossible, and existence is timeless, uniform, and unchanging. |
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| He was the most prolific, and ultimately the most influential, of the pre-Socratic philosophers; his atomic theory may be regarded as the culmination of early Greek thought. Atoms and void |
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| mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, |
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| first to attempt a mathematical explanation of the planets. Concentric Spheres |
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| father of geometry. Elements of number theory and such. |
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| Eureka. law of lever, screw, and golden crown. |
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