History of Anatomy

R. SHANE TUBBS, Professor, Chief Scientific Officer and Vice President, Seattle Science Foundation, USA MOHAMMADALI M. SHOJA, practices in the Tabriz University Neuroscience Institute, Iran. MARIOS LOUKAS, Dean of Basic Sciences and Professor and Chair, Department of Anatomical Sciences, St. George's University, Grenada. PAUL AGUTTER, Director of the Theoretical Medicine and Biology Group, Glossop, UK.

Chapter I Africa

Egypt
Edwin Smith Papyrus

Neurological anatomy

Cardiovascular anatomy

Herophilus

Erasistratus

Kahun Papyrus

Reproductive anatomy

Algeria
Jean Baptiste Paulin Trolard

Chapter II Far East

China
Huang di and the Nei Jing
Hua Tuo
Wang Qingren
Benjamin Hobson

Japan
Shinnin Kawaguchi
Genpaku Sugita
Ryotaku Maeno
Shoteki Fuseya
Otsuki Gentaku
Koji Harada and Ryoetsu Hoshino
Buntaro Adachi
Sunao Tawara

India
Susruta

Chapter III Europe

Austria
Heinrich Obersteiner
Emil Zuckerkandl

Czechoslavakia
Vincent Alexander Bochdalek

England
Richard Lower
John Browne
James Drake
Francis Sibson
William Turner

France
Jacobus Sylvius
Charles Estienne
Raymond de Vieussens
Pierre Dionis
Félix Vicq d'Azyr
Marie-François Xavier Bichat
François Magendie
Jules Germain Cloquet
Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke

Germany
Adam Christian Thebesius
Franz Kaspar Hesselbach
Hubert von Luschka
Adolf Wallenberg
Korbinian Brodmann

Greece
Aristotle
Galen
Polybus

Holland
Franciscus Sylvius
Niels Stensen
Pieter Camper

Ireland
Abraham Colles

Italy
Leonardo da Vinci
Vidius Vidius
Giambattista Canano
Matteo Realdo Colombo
Costanzo Varolio
Giulio Cesare Casseri
Giovanni Maria Lancisi
Giovanni Battista Morgagni
Ruggero Ferdinando Antonio Guisseppe Vincenzo Oddi

Norway
Johan Georg Ræder

Scotland
Andrew Fyfe the Elder
Sir John Struthers
Sir Charles Bell

Spain
Antonio de Gimbernat y Arbós

Sweden
Emanuel Swedenborg

Switzerland
Wilhelm His Sr.
Wilhelm His, Jr.

Chapter IV Middle East

Israel

Bible and Talmud

Islamic Middle East

Qur'an and Hadeeth

Persia
Abu Zakariya Yuhanna ibn Masawaih, Mesue
Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari
Abubakr Muhammad Ibn Zakaria Razi, Rhazes
Abubakr Rabi ibn Ahmad Joveini Bukhari
Ali ibn Abbas al-Majusi, Hally Abbas
Abu Ali al-Hussain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina, Avicenna
Zinn-ol-Abedin Seyed Esmail ibn al-Hussain ibn Ahmad al-Jorjani
Nasir al-Din Tusi

Babylon
Ibn Jazlah

Chapter V North America

United States
Henry Jacob Bigelow
Oliver Wendell Holmes