Herophilus: The Art of Medicine in Early Alexandria: Edition, Translation and Essays - Paperbackby Herophilus (Author), Herophilus Herophilus (Author), Heinrich Von Staden (Editor) Herophilus, a contemporary of Euclid, practiced medicine in Alexandria in the third century B. C., and seems to have been the first Western scientist to dissect the human body. He made especially impressive contributions to many branches of anatomy and also developed influential views on many other aspects of medicine. Von Staden assembles the fragmentary evidence