Herophilus biography of michaels

Herophilos (335–280 BCE) was an ancient Greek physician and perhaps the first true anatomist in world history.^[1] Some of his key findings include identification of the ovum, Skene's gland, components of the eye (cornea, iris), the prostate gland and duodenum.

As a member of the well-known scholastic community in the newly founded city of Alexandria during the single, brief period in Greek medical history when the ban on human dissection was temporarily lifted, Herophilus studied the ventricles (cavities) of the brain, the organ he regarded as the centre of the nervous system, traced the sinuses of the dura mater (the tough membrane covering the brain) to their junction, known as the torcular Herophili; and classified the nerve trunks —distinguishing them from tendons and blood vessels — as motor or sensory.

He rendered careful accounts of the eye, liver, salivary glands, pancreas, and genital organs