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Herophilus

British  
/ hɪəˈrɒfɪləs /

noun

  1. died ?280 bc , Greek anatomist in Alexandria. He was the first to distinguish sensory from motor nerves

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Erasistratus and Herophilus explored the cerebella of fast-moving animals like deer and rabbits.

From New York Times Apr. 13, 2018

In the early third century Herophilus of Chalcedon, the brilliant Alexandrian anatomist, invented a device for timing the pulse.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

Yet this assumes that Herophilus was asking modern questions of his data.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

Herophilus explained the alterations of the pulse by the various modes and rhythms of music.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen

In the Byzantine Empire of the East the same cause produced the same effect; the evolution of ascertained truth in medicine, begun by Hippocrates and continued by Herophilus, seemed lost forever.

From History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom by Andrew Dickson White

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