History of anatomy Flashcards
Urlugaledinna
: from Babylonia, “expert in healing animals” 3000 BC
Hammurabi
In 2200 BC Code of Hammurabi defines veterinary fees
Alkmaion did what when
Alkmáion (“alc-may-in”) distinguished veins from arteries in ancient greece
roughy 500 BC
530 – 470 BC
Hippocrates
the „Father of Western Medicine“ in ancient greece
roughly 400 BC
460 – 377 BC
what did aristotle define and when?
defined morphology; „Historia Animalium“ in ancient greece
roughly 350 BC
384 – 322 BC
Cato Major
also known as Cato the Elder from Ancient Rome
wrote „De Agri Cultura“
recommended the use of herbal remedies for sheep scab
roughly 200 BC
234 – 149 BC
Claudius Galenus
performed vivisection and clarified anatomy of the trachea
roughly 200 AD anno domini
Leonardo da Vinci
studied the mechanical functions of the skeleton and
drew the vascular system and other internal organs in the Renaissance
first scientific drawing of a fetus in utero.
1452 – 1519
so from the 15th to 16th centuries
Andreas Vesalius
wrote On the Fabric of the Human Body
16th century
lived 1514 – 1564
when was On the Fabric of the Human Body published?
1543
Carlo Ruini
one of the most noted anatomists of the horse in the 16th century
His noted work, „Anatomia del Cavallo,
so 16th century
1530–1598
William Harvey
author of „An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals“
which forms the basis for future research on blood vessels, arteries and the heart.
so 16th to 17th century
1578 – 1657
what is significant about 1594?
Theatrum anatomicum in Padova medical school opened with veterinary „chair“ and a veterinary anatomy theatre
Claude Bourgelat
- – 20. century
the first organized teaching of animal medicine in Lyon College
start of veterinary profession 1761
Georges Cuvier
Drove the beginnings of taxonomy
so 18th- 19th century
1769 – 1832