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Anatomy History
| Alcmaeon | first to use dissection, brain center of intelligence |
| Empedocles | heart distributes heat through vessels |
| Hippocrates | who is known as the Father of Medicine |
| Aristotle | philosopher, logical deduction no experimentation |
| Herophilus and Erasistratus | human dissection on criminals |
| Galen | findings and theories form basis of medieval science |
| Leonardo da Vinci | artwork based on human anatomy |
| Andreas Vesalius | anatomical drawings made from dissections |
| William Harvey | -breakthrough on human circulation |
| Sir Henry Gray | publishes Gray’s Anatomy |
| Modern Radiology | CAT, PET & MRI imaging |