Herophilus: Quick Facts


Facts

Born c.335 BCE • Chalcedon • Bithynia
Died c.280 BCE
Subjects Of Study dissection

Galen of Pergamum
Galen
Greek physician
Andreas Vesalius
Andreas Vesalius
Belgian physician
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William Shippen, Jr.
American educator
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Mondino De’ Luzzi
Italian physician
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Erasistratus Of Ceos
Greek physician
William Harvey
William Harvey
English physician
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René Laënnec
French physician
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Severino Antinori
Italian gynecologist and embryologist
Florence Sabin, c. 1915.
Florence Rena Sabin
American anatomist
The “father of scientific surgery”
John Hunter
British surgeon
Franciscus Sylvius
Franciscus Sylvius
German physician
Matteo Colombo, oil painting by an unknown artist
Matteo Realdo Colombo
Italian physician
Cheselden, William
William Cheselden
British surgeon and teacher
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Alexander Monro, secundus
Scottish physician, anatomist, and educator
Belon, detail from an engraving
Pierre Belon
French naturalist
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Alexander Monro, primus
Scottish physician and professor of anatomy
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Jean Cruveilhier
French pathologist
Lyonnet, detail of an oil painting by Hendrik van Limborch, 1742; in a private collection
Pierre Lyonnet
Dutch naturalist and engraver
Lorenzo Bellini, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist
Lorenzo Bellini
Italian physician and anatomist