Instead, Galen learned about anatomy by dissecting animals similar to humans such as apes. Galen updated and added to the medical knowledge of the ancient Greek doctors and he documented what he ...

Galen never dissected a human body — his knowledge about human anatomy came mainly from investigations of the Barbary ape. Galen's predecessors had found empty arteries and an empty left side of ...

Its anatomy is linked with such names as Galen, Fallopius, Vesalius, Harvey, Lower, His, Born and Tandler, its physiology with Galen, Harvey, Méry, Wolff, Haller and Sabatier. As regards the ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Vesalius noticed that Galen had made some incorrect assumptions about the human body, as Galen had been unable to ...