Scientists And Healers

Question 1

Asclepius

Answer 1

Miraculously cured people at Epidaurus

Question 2

Alcmaeon

Answer 2

Proposed health is an equality of powers within the body and was the first to record medical theory

Question 3

Empedocles

Answer 3

4 elements construct the world and are limited

Question 4

Hippocrates

Answer 4

Father of modern scientific medicine, rejecting supernatural causes of disease

Question 5

Aristotle

Answer 5

• Described over 500 species of animals in the Lyceum
• Resisted atomism
• Believed in cosmic spheres

Question 6

William Harvey

Answer 6

First physician to describe systematic circulation of blood through heart to brain

Question 7

Herophilus

Answer 7

Vascular and nervous system described as well as rhythms importance

Question 8

Erasistratus

Answer 8

Heart as a pump and accurately described the valves within it

Question 9

Asclepiades

Answer 9

Atomism and pharmacology

Question 10

Celcsus

Answer 10

On medical matters and surgical practices

Question 11

Soranus

Answer 11

Author of gynecology

Question 12

Galen

Answer 12

Respiration as regulation

-logic, physics, ethics should be part of physicians training

Question 13

Paramenides

Answer 13

Challenged Milesians with deductive arguments

Question 14

Democratus

Answer 14

Coined term “atom” and suggested an infinite cosmoi with earth not as the center

Question 15

Plato

Answer 15

Challenged uniformity and order of cosmology with planets as his argument

Question 16

Eudoxus

Answer 16

Suggested idea of concentric spheres

Question 17

Ptolemy

Answer 17

Wrote Almagest, supporting geocentrism

Question 18

Euclid

Answer 18

First taxomatic deductive system

Question 19

Archemides

Answer 19

Mechanical theory: levers and forces
Hydrostatics: on floating bodies
Geometry: method of exhaustion