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’
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’
