
About this episode
In today's episode of History and Hearsay, we are discussing the beginning of Medical History and Human Dissection. NEXT EPISODE we will be talking about how the need for BODIES for medical research lead to the rise of body snatchers!
This is Episode 1
EPISODE 2: Coming - 10/13
EPISODE 3: Coming 10/20
EPISODE 4: Coming 10/27
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Intro
0:35 - Dissection History + What is dissection?
1:33 - Ancient Egyptians
2:01 - Ancient Chinese
2:17 - Ancient India
4:09 - Ancient Asia, Africa & The Americas
4:24 - Ancient Greeks
7:56 - Galen
9:45 - Middle Ages - Rise of Arab/Islamic Countries
11:01 - How Human Dissection came back
12:00 - Dissection for Science - Discoveries by Century
12:56 - Outro
#historyofmedicine #medicalhistory
SOURCES:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2Lx-oTwuQA
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7835115/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A--30LBHqOU
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