Capítulo VIII: La Edad Media. Luego de la época Galénica hubo una especie de “breve pausa” en el avance del conocimiento anatómico, que duro cientos de años. Esto se debió a múltiples factores (entre ellos al propio Galeno), que veremos brevemente. Los escritos anatómicos, fisiológicos y médicos...
While civilizations other than the Egyptians may have had some knowledge of neurological diseases (modern neurology and psychiatry), and of the form and function of the nervous system (anatomy and physiology, respectively), there are virtually no records of these. There are indirect indications that the...
As we have seen in the first part, we have no record of man's knowledge of the nervous system until writing was invented. Those who knew about the nervous system and recorded it were the Egyptians. But, as you can imagine, the knowledge of the...