The founders of the study of the body: Galen of Pergamon, Vesalius with his anatomy of the human body, William Harvey with the circulation of the blood and Ibn al-Nafis with the pulmonary circulation. A person belongs here when the cited article describes an anatomist or physiologist active before the nineteenth century. It excludes the cellular pathologists and the experimental pathologists of the modern period.
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Hieronymus Fabricius (Wikipedia)
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was a pioneering anatomist and surgeon known in medical science as "The Father of Embryology"
Jan Jesenius (Wikipedia)
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was a Bohemian physician, anatomist
André du Laurens (source article)
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His Historia anatomica underwent many editions.
Leonardo Botallo (Wikipedia)
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was an Italian anatomist who is remembered in the eponymous foramen Botalli
Andreas Vesalius (Wikipedia)
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Andries van Wezel (31 December 1514-15 October 1564), Latinized as Andreas Vesalius (), was an anatomist and physician who wrote De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem (On the fabric of the human body in seven books), which is considered one of the most influential books on human anatomy and a major advance over the long-dominant work of Galen.
Wikipedia: Ibn al-Nafis
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He is known for being the first to describe the pulmonary circulation of the blood.
William Harvey (Wikipedia)
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William Harvey (1 April 1578-3 June 1657) was an English physician who made influential contributions to anatomy and physiology.
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