Androtomy

Androtomy

Androtomy is the dissection of the human body. The first recorded dissection of the human body in the Western world took place in ancient Alexandria by Herophilus and Erasistratus. Though none of their writings have come down to us, other medical writers recorded what they had discovered.

One such writer was Celsus who wrote in "On Medicine I Proem 23", "Herophilus and Erasistratus proceeded in by far the best way: they cut open living men - criminals they obtained out of prison from the kings and they observed, while their subjects still breathed, parts that nature had previously hidden, their position, color, shape , size, arrangement, hardness, softness, smoothness, points of contact, and finally the processes and recesses of each and whether any part is inserted into another or receives the part of another into itself."

Galen was another such writer who was familiar with the studies of the famous Alexandrians, Herophilus and Erasistratus.

ee also

* vivisection
* autopsy
* forensics

References

* C. Celsus, "On Medicine, I, Proem 23", 1935, translated by W. G. Spencer, (Loeb Classics Library, 1992).


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