Antiquity. Works of Gippokrata

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Trudy Gippokrata testify to its good knowledge of anatomy and of its successful employment by the medicine theory. According to Gippokrata, the life depends on interaction of four elements: air, water, fire and the earth which correspond to four conditions: cold, warm, dry and damp. In a human body four liquids co-operate: blood (sanquis), yellow bile (chole), slime (phlegma) and black bile (melanos chole). In a human body these liquids are in the certain quantitative parity which infringement leads to frustration of mental activity.

Thus there was a division into four temperaments: sanguine, choleric, flegmatichesky and melancholic.

Congenital heat of a body, air arriving outside, and the juice received with food are necessary For maintenance of ability to live for an organism. All it the powerful vital force operates, which Gippokrat named the Nature.

The Largest doctors of first half III century BC, brought the greatest contribution to the doctrine about a body structure, were Gerofil and Erazis-expenditure. They the first do attempt to create an exact natural science about a human body, original anatomy.

We know About Gerofile, perhaps, only that it was the native izhalkedona on Bosporus, studied at good teachers, and that it considered as the doctor-'pravdoveshchatelem ', that is telling the truth. Its works, one of which the name ' carries Anatomika ', during more later time very much appreciated and constantly them used. In many Gerofil adjoined Gippokratu and Aristotle and just as they considered as a basis of the doctrine four elements and four temperaments, Gerofil said that a human body four forces which are in its different parts own: feeding force - in a liver, warming - in the heart, conceiving - in a head brain and feeling - in nerves.

He dreamt to make the description of all human body, its bodies and their interrelation for all anatomic descriptions which were available at that time, were only fragments, the casual data received from sketchy supervision, or transferred anatomy of animals on the person that led to usually wrong representations.