LAM History

Aristotle (384-322 BC)

  • Founder of biology

  • First to make dissections that revealed internal differences in animals

Erasistratus (304-250 BC)

  • Founder of physiology

  • First to perform experiments on living animals

  • Utilized crude metabolic cages to study bird physiology

Galen (130-200)

  • Performed anatomical dissections of pigs, monkeys, sheep, oxen, lions, wolves, birds, at least one elephant, and many other species

  • His favorite dissection subject was the Barbary ape (Macaca sylvanus