Herophilus

Calcidius, in his Latin commentary on Plato's Timaeus, praises Alcmaeon, along with Callisthenes and Herophilus, for having brought many things to light about the nature of the eye (DK, A10).

Alcmaeon Huffman, Carl 2008

Many many Greek scientists used evidence to back up their theories, Herophilus did dissections and demonstrated the difference between nerves and blood vessels and that the brain was a co-ordinator of the nervous system.

Book Club: The Prince Carlo Artieri 2006

Herophilus, in that sinus of the brain which is the basis of it.

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

Herophilus acknowledgeth that a natural, but not an animal motion, and that the nerves are the cause of that motion; that then they become animals, when being first born they suck in something of the air.

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

Herophilus, that one species of motion is obvious only to reason, the other to sense.

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

Herophilus attributes a moving faculty to the nerves, arteries, and muscles, but thinks that the lungs are affected only with a natural desire of enlarging and contracting themselves.

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

Herophilus much to blame the physician Callianax, who, being asked by a patient of his, Shall I die? impudently made him this answer:

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Herophilus much to blame the physician Callianax, who, being asked by a patient of his, Shall I die? impudently made him this answer:

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Herophilus of Chalcedon and Erasistratos of Ceos (at Antioch?) made great advances in anatomy, physiology, and pathology.

5. The Hellenistic World, to 30 B.C.E 2001

Herophilus had been a student at Cos, Erasistratus at Cnidos, so that the teaching of the two great

Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine James Sands Elliott