Herophilus

Herophilus, one of the greatest physicians of antiquity, and co-founder of the celebrated medical school of Alexandria, was born at Chalcedon, in Bithynia, and flourished in the 4th and 3d centuries B.C. He distinguished himself in particular by his devotion to anatomy, especially of the brain and those parts which were less known. He was a skilful dissector, and is said to have even dissected criminals alive; moreover, he was a bold and dexterous surgeon. The few fragments of his writings which remain were published at Göttingen in 1840.