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Period: 510 BCE to 410 BCE
Alcmaeon
First to identified Eustachain tubes -
Period: 460 BCE to 370 BCE
Hippocrates
The Father of medicine released medicine from any kind of religious superstition and established it as a science -
Period: 335 BCE to 280 BCE
Herophilus
Studied cavities of the brain, wrote nine works accounts of eye, lover, pancreas. -
Period: 130 to 210
Claudius Galen
- contributed to medicine
- contributed to substantial amount to the Hippocratic understanding of pathology
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Period: 1452 to 1519
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci conducted more than 30 human disections. This research turned into 240+ meticulous drawings as well as 13000 words of notes in “mirror script” -
Period: 1514 to 1564
Andreas Vesalius
Published ‘De Humani corporis Fabrica transformed anatomy to rely on observations. Took up medical practice. -
Period: 1578 to
William Harvey
Detailed systemic circulation -
Period: to
Rene Laennec
(Father of Thoracic medicine) invented the stethoscope. He diagnosed various conditions -
Period: to
Henry Gray
Gray published the first edition of “anatomy”