Herophilus: The Art of Medicine in Early Alexandria: Edition, Translation and EssaysHerophilus, a contemporary of Euclid, practiced medicine in Alexandria in the third century B. C., and seems to have been the first Western scientist to dissect the human body. He made especially impressive contributions to many branches of anatomy and also developed influential views on many other aspects of medicine. Von Staden assembles the fragmentary evidence concerning one of the more important scientists of ancient Greece. Part 1 of the book