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Herophilus, a contemporary of Euclid, practiced medicine in Alexandria in the third century B.C., and seems to have been the first Western scientist to dissect the human body. He made especially impressive contributions to many branches of anatomy. Von Staden assembles the fragmentary evidence concerning one of the more important scientists of ancient Greece.Staden, Heinrich Von is the author of 'Herophilus The Art of Medicine in Early Alexandria' with ISBN 9780521236461 and ISBN 0521236460.
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