|
HEROPHILUS was born at Chalcedon in Bithynia. He established himself in Alexandria under Ptolemy Soter, and devoted his life to anatomical study. Like Erasistratus, he is said to have performed operations on the living bodies of criminals. He gave much attention to the anatomy of the brain and the nervous system. One of the cerebral sinuses still bears his name. That part of the fourth ventricle called from its appearance Calamus scriptorius was also defined by him. He was the first to distinguish the part of the intestine known as the duodenum from the rest of the canal. These and other points we gather from references made by Celsus and Galen; for none of his works have reached us.
Purchase books on Herophilus
| This biography is
reprinted from The New Calendar of Great Men. Ed. Frederic
Harrison. London: Macmillan and Co., 1920. |
|
