@article{oai:hirosaki.repo.nii.ac.jp:00001850,
 author = {Imai, Masahiro},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {Article, Herophilus of Chalcedon (c.330-250 BC) is famous as one of the leading figures in the
development of medicine in Ptolemaic Alexandria around the first half of the third century
BC. However, his medical science seems to have intrinsic continuity of thought with
Hippocratic medicine. Herophilus followed the medical principle formulated in the
Hippocratic treatise  On the Nature of Man, when he made his methodological
pronouncement to the effect that primary parts of the human body should be perceptible
by the senses. Herophilus rejected cardiocentrism, introduced by his teacher Praxagoras
into the medical school of Cos, and returned to Hippocratic encephalocentrism, as
represented by the author of the Hippocratic treatise On the Sacred Disease. Herophilus
differentiated between the faculties of the soul and the ones attributed to the nature. In his
differentiation between these two faculties, Herophilus probably had in mind the
Hippocratic conception of nature as specifically applied to the domain of the human body,
as distinct from the soul. Herophilus’ commitment to Hippocratic medicine is confirmed by
his literary works on some of the Hippocratic texts. It is probable that Herophilus regarded
himself as a more faithful successor than his teacher to the tradition of Hippocratic
medicine. His anatomical researches on the structure and functions of the brain, motivated
by his loyalty to the Hippocratic tradition, led him to innovative contributions to the
development of medicine., Archaeology of Intellectual Aspects of European Culture, P.5-30},
 pages = {5--30},
 title = {Herophilus of Chalcedon and the Hippocratic Tradition in Early Alexandrian Medicine},
 volume = {[1]},
 year = {2012}
}