Alexandria School of Medicine

At one historical juncture, in Egypt, they united all the different medical doctrines that originated in the East and in Alexandria (increasingly resembling a cosmopolitan city), and merged into one universal "critical mass of knowledge" the Alexandrian empirical school.

Thus, with its schools, Alexandria was a kind of university where the most prominent writers, physicians, scientists, and philosophers of the historical period gathered and worked.

At one point, they united all the different medical doctrines originating in the East and in Alexandria (which increasingly resembled a cosmopolitan city) in Egypt, and merged it into one universal critical mass of knowledge.

[citation needed] As the medical science of ancient Greece plunged into political decadence and setbacks - scientific work was renewed in this area, especially in the field of anatomy: numerous sections on corpses and even vivisection on death row inmates were done.

[citation needed] Erasistratus (304-250 BC), a Greek physician who grew up in Antioch, was an anatomist of that time, who described the numerous anatomical structures of the human body.

He systematically dissected the corpses, the death row convicts, and probably the bodies of living animals, and thus scientifically advanced the anatomy.

Under the influence of the Democritus of atomistics and the peripatetic school, he sought to interpret all life phenomena in a strictly mechanical manner.

[citation needed] As most of the diseases, Erasistratus considered to be due to over-nutrition, he suggested that not much release be used against the plethora blood as a post.

The abandonment of the theory caused a decline in the scientific level of medicine, which increasingly began to focus solely on practical problems.

The link between physiology and pathology disappeared, and in the end, only the external signs of the disease, the symptoms, were important to the physician at that time.

Philosophers, but above all physicians at the Alexandria Medical School, resorted to astrology and valued it as a skill that significantly helps man.

With the transition of Egypt to the status of Roman province and the fall of Alexandria into the hands of Rashidun Caliphate (641 AD), the Alexandrian Medical School slowly lost importance, while the golden age of medicine in Europe was developing.