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Neurosciences possessed a dominant place in the Hellenistic School of Medicine. The brain as the organ of mind and intelligence, closely related with the soul, the center of the conscious life and reasoning, attracted the attention of physicians, philosophers and many intellectuals in other disciplines. In Alexandria, the Hippocratic Medicine was enriched by many original, important observations on Anatomy and Physiology of the Nervous System by the eminent Physicians of the School of Alexandria, who were also deeply influenced by the rich philosophical background of the Hellenistic world.
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Hellenistic Neurosciences plot the pattern of Byzantine and Arabic Neurology and exercised a strong and long lasting influence on the modern Neurology.
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Τhe physician has to master all aspects of philosophy, logic, natural sciences and ethics, then each physician must evidently be in need of philosophy, and each physician has to be a real philosopher
Professor Stavros J Baloyannis or Balogiannis or Balojannis or Baloyiannis or Mpalogiannis
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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This page is a summary of: Neurosciences in Hellenistic Alexandria, Journal of Neurology & Stroke, September 2018, MedCrave Group LLC,
DOI: 10.15406/jnsk.2018.08.00320.
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