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Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology

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Introduction to anatomy and physiology is a class notes that helps student gain more understanding on how the human body is structured an function of each and every body organ

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GENERAL
ANATOMY

SAM MWAKAI
UPEMT -LEC /ECCCO

, HISTORY OF ANATOMY
HIPPOCRATES(460-377BC)
 Greek physician
 Father of Medicine
 His name is memorialized in
the Hippocratic oath
 Humoral theory :
Four body humors –
-blood
. -
phlegum
- -yellow bile
- -black
bile
 Attributed diseases to natural
causes .

, GRECIAN PERIOD
HEROPHILUS (about 325BC)

 Father of Anatomy
 Performed:
-vivi-sections (dissections of
living humans) and -
dissections of human cadavers
 regarded brain as seat of
intelligence
 described cerebrum,
cerebellum, fourth ventricle
 first to identify nerves as
sensory or motor.

, SIXTEENTH CENTURY

VESALIUS(1514- 1654)

 His work De humani corporis
fabrica written in 7 volumes
 His work revolutionised the
teaching of anatomy and ruled
for two centuries
 Chose not to have his name
attached to the parts of body he
described unlike anatomists
Sylvius, Fallopius, Eustachius.
 Father of Modern Anatomy
 ‘Reformer of Anatomy’

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