Erasistratus
[ er-uh-sis-truh-tuhs ]
noun
c300–250 b.c., Greek physician and physiologist.
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Erasistratus, his physician, had without much difficulty perceived that he was in love, but could not guess with whom.
Plutarch's Lives, Volume IV | Aubrey StewartThese earliest of really scientific investigators of the mechanism of the human body were named Herophilus and Erasistratus.
A History of Science, Volume 1(of 5) | Henry Smith WilliamsTherefore, the reply of Erasistratus in his treatise On Deglutition was neither rhetoric nor logic.
On the Natural Faculties | GalenFor they must all be accomplished in one and the same way, even according to Erasistratus himself.
On the Natural Faculties | GalenAccording to the former one the Peripatetics had no accurate acquaintance with Nature, and according to the second, Erasistratus.
On the Natural Faculties | Galen
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