The anatomist's vade mecum: containing the anatomy, physiology, morbid appearances, &c. of the human body; the art of making anatomical preparations, &c. ... / [Robert Hooper].

  • Hooper, Robert, 1773-1835
Date:
1820
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    philosophy, yet natural history and anatomy were far from being overlooked: their opportunities, however, of examining bodies, were confined ; and, after their time, the study of natural knowledge at Athens sunk for ever. But while it decayed in Greece and Asia, it rose with increased energy, under the protection of the Ptolemies, at Alexan- dria. In this school, which was so long pre-eminent, Erisistratus and Hreropuitus were highly dis- tinguished for anatomical knowledge. By the li- beral patronage of the Ptelemies, they enjoyed ample opportunites of dissecting human bodies; and the consequent improvements which anatomy re- ceived were very great. They not only corrected many former errers, but wrote with great judgment upon neurology. They observed a variety of strue- ture in nerves supplying different parts, and hence distinguished them into those which were necessary motion. Between the times of Herophilus and Erisistra- tus. to Galen, a period of five hundred years, As- CLEPIADES, Rurus Epuesius, and the sensible and elegant writer Cetsus, flourished. ‘The two latter have given the appellations and situations of all the parts of the human body, zn compendio, in which’ 5