Abstract
A brief history of neuroscience
Highlights
Edwin Smith Papyrus is one of the oldest medical scripts written in this period and is often referred to as the first treatise on surgery
Human dissections were banned in Rome
He extensively dissected non-human primates and published two treatises which gained an enormous publicity among regional scholars for many years and even after his death. These treatises were considered the gold standard in anatomy until his writings were challenged by Vesalius in the 16th century
Summary
Edwin Smith Papyrus is one of the oldest medical scripts written in this period and is often referred to as the first treatise on surgery. Following the era of Herophilus and Erasistratus, anatomical dissections were abandoned for almost 350 years until the time of the celebrated physician Claudius Galen (131-201 AD). He extensively dissected non-human primates and published two treatises which gained an enormous publicity among regional scholars for many years and even after his death. These treatises were considered the gold standard in anatomy until his writings were challenged by Vesalius in the 16th century.
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