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Mummy Head Reveals Advanced Medieval Science

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#1    Still Waters

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Posted 07 March 2013 - 11:56 AM

In the second century, an ethnically Greek Roman named Galen became doctor to the gladiators. His glimpses into the human body via these warriors' wounds, combined with much more systematic dissections of animals, became the basis of Islamic and European medicine for centuries.

Galen's texts wouldn't be challenged for anatomical supremacy until the Renaissance, when human dissections — often in public — surged in popularity. But doctors in medieval Europe weren't as idle as it may seem, as a new analysis of the oldest-known preserved human dissection in Europe reveals.

http://news.yahoo.co...-152557854.html
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Posted 07 March 2013 - 03:41 PM

That is gruesome.  :wacko:





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