When1: -500
When2: -450
Who: Alcmaeon or Alcmaeon of Croton
What: doctor
Where: Crotona, Italy
works\ Dissections [-500]; On Nature [-500 to -450]
Detail: He lived -535 to -440 and dissected animals. Body has opposing powers, hot/cold and wet/dry, which balance in health. Galen later used this idea.
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