Hérophile

Hérophile of Alexandria , born in 331 and died in 250, was a Greek Médecin born with Chalcédoine in minor Asia (currently Kadiköy in Turkey).

Biography

It is known as a first anatomist of the history and considered as largest. With Érasistrate, he is regarded as a founder of the medical university of Alexandria. Its work was lost but was quoted much by Galien at the 2nd century.

It was the first, with Érasistrate, to base its conclusions on the Dissection of the Human body. It paid an special attention to the Nervous system; distinguishing the Nerve S from the blood-vessels, it seems that he was the first to distinguish the motor nerves from the sensory nerves. It distinguished the brain from the cerebellum, the fourth ventricle, the calamus scriptorius and the torcular, the meninges, the venous sine, as well as the rachidian nerves. He studied the brain and identified it as the center of the nervous system and the site of the Intelligence, and he was as the first to discover as the arteries transported blood and not of the air.

Hérophile was also the first to show the role of the heart in the pulsations, and compared those with breathing.

Its anatomical study relates to also the eye, the Foie, the Pancréas and the digestive system as well as the salivary bodies and genital.

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