The art of medicine: Nemesius of Emesa and early brain mapping

Abstract

[...] after the discovery of the nervous system in 3rd century BCE Alexandria by the medical scientists Herophilus and Erasistratus-who for the first time in medical history made use of vivisectory experiments on human beings-and after Galen's experiments on living animals in the 2nd century CE, the cognitive primacy of the brain was firmly established.