Antiquity. Erazistrat

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Erazistrat was the Second large doctor of that epoch. He was born in the city of Julide on the island Keos located in immediate proximity from the Greek continent. Possibly, the uncle-physician has induced it to go to Alexandria where Erazistrat has deserved the big respect, being the personal doctor of the tsar. Tell that once at will of the tsar it surveyed his son, prince Antioha who was ill with mysterious illness, however could not find out anything that would explain illness. Unexpectedly the beauty of Stra-tonic, the slave has entered into a room, and here the diagnosis at once became clear to the doctor: on behaviour of the prince and its pulse, which Erazistrat just studied at this time, he has concluded that the prince is enamoured in Stratoniku and what exactly it and has led the prince of illness. The doctor has told about it to the tsar and has inclined it to put an end to sufferings of the son, having given to it ъЁрёртшчѕ...

Erazistrat was interested in the major questions of anatomy. He especially carefully tried to investigate a brain of the person, it managed to find out a place of an exit of sensitive nerves and to fill up thus data on their appointment and essence. One of the Roman writers told later, as if Erazistrat with that end in view made vivisektsii over the condemned criminals. However proofs of such statement are not present, and it, most likely, is an invention.

The Outstanding historian of medicine of Pushman underlines that from ancient doctors of Erazistrat was the first which representations about physiology came nearer to the modern. Erazistrat named the nature the mistress, considered its careful and corresponding to the appointment, however, as well as doctors of the next centuries, it was always ready to declare unnecessary the body which value could not comprehend. So it has arrived with a spleen. It did not have an aspiration to ' scientific inquisitiveness ', desires to get into secrets of the nature that just and work of the physician-scientist, especially demands the physiologist. He considered that the doctor has no need to know, whence and for what juice is formed, whether collects, for example, yellow bile in a stomach or arrives there with food, - it all it-de does not concern. Erazistrat learnt that the human body consists of not changing particles - from tiny, firm, insensible and originally lifeless atoms which revive only under the influence of heat arriving from the outside. He asserted that congenital warmth does not exist. Disagreeing with this theory of Gippokrata, it disagreed and with its other sights, rejecting the doctrine about four properties.