Edward Tyson

He is credited with changing the hospital from a zoo of sorts to a place intended to assist its inmates.

He noted that the convoluted structures of the brains were closer to those of land quadrupeds than those of fish.

[3][4] In 1698, he dissected a chimpanzee on display at the London docks, and as a result wrote a book, Orang-Outang, sive Homo Sylvestris: or, the Anatomy of a Pygmie Compared with that of a Monkey, an Ape, and a Man.

This work was republished in 1894 with an introduction by Bertram C. A. Windle and a short biography of Tyson.

[2] Tyson dissected a timber rattlesnake in 1683 and produced one of the earliest and most accurate descriptions of the internal anatomy of snakes.