https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/daily-life-and-practice/medicine-in-the-ancient-world/ Mon, 12 Aug 2024 01:53:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/daily-life-and-practice/medicine-in-the-ancient-world/#comment-3105 Fri, 15 Nov 2013 10:26:42 +0000 https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/?p=15020#comment-3105 To be honest, I am shocked to discover the myth of “dissection of corpse banned by the church only after 6th century” is reiterated in this supposedly scholarly article. Galen never dissect human corpse, because it is forbidden under Roman law, and his research is consequently limited to ape dissection. Human corpse dissection was forbidden for most of the time during the Greco-Roman era except the early 3rd century BCE Alexandria. There was never a universal ban on dissection in medieval Europe. The Europeans had performed significant numbers of human dissections, especially postmortem autopsies during this era.
reference: The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China and the West

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