What the other Greeke Authors haue written of Anatomy. CHAP. XIII.
THere were after Hippocrates time, certaine famous men, that did diligentlie practise the art of Anatomy, and deliuered many things in writing, which haue all perished, I know not by what mishap, or destiny, whether I should call it. Alcmaeus Crotoniata (as Calchidius reporteth,) did vse to anatomize * 1.1 mens bodies. Diocles Carystius in his Epistle to King Antigonus, diuideth the bodie of Man into the head, the chest, the belly, and the bladder. Lycus Macedo was ac∣counted cunning in the Dissection of the Muscles; and his bookes (as saith Galen in his 4. * 1.2 booke de Anat. Administ.) were with great commendation dispersed all abroad. Quintus, Lycus his Schoolemaister wrote some things of Anatomy; Marinus published 20. bookes of those thinges which Lycus was ignorant of in Anatomy. Erasistratus did much in this kinde also. Herophilus (as Tertullian saith) cut vppe aboue seuenty bodies, and oftentimes * 1.3 the bodies of liuing men: of him Galen writeth thus. Herophilus aswell in all other things that appertaine to out art, as also in Anatomy, did attaine to a most exacte and exquisite skill and knowledge, and for the most part made his experiments not in bruite beastes, as most men vse to do, but euen in the bodies of men. * 1.4
Pelops did publickly teach Anatomy, and was the Schoolemaister of Galen, he affirmed, that all the vessels of the body, did originally arise from the Braine. Diogenes Apollonata, wrote a Booke of Veynes. Asclepiades, Eudemus, Praxagoras, Philotimus, Elianus, Polybius, Calistus, in their seuerall times, did all of them excell in this art. Yet none of their writings remaine with vs; but if we beleeue Aristotle and Galen, they had many foolish, and ridicu∣lous conceites. There haue beene also Greekes of later times, who haue done somewhat