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Erasistratus logo #21217Erasistratus was an ancient Greek physician, said to have been grandson of Aristotle. He lived in the 3rd century BC, and was court physician of Seleucus Nicator, king of Syria. He was the first who systematically dissected the human body, and his description of the brain and nerves is much more exact than any given by his predecessors. He classifi...
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Erasistratus

Erasistratus logo #21199c300–250 b.c., Greek physician and physiologist.
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