Animal Experiments: 2nd Century Galen Of Pergamon

Also around that same time period people used animals to satisfy their curiosity of the insides of animals. (Hajar). They would examined sensory nerves, motor nerves, and tendons in order to understand their functional differences. Around the 2nd century Galen of Pergamon, a Greek physician. Conducted animal experiments in the areas of anatomy, physiology, and pharmacology; he is the first to describe the complexities of the cardio system, and he also then found discoveries on brain and spinal cord function. In which he found seven out of the twelve cranial nerves (“Discover”). Also in the 18th century Edward Jenner, with the further discoveries of medical advances, was able to use fruit flies cows and dogs to provided the first protection against smallpox by calling his new method vaccination. The word vaccination comes from the latin word cow. (“Animals”) …show more content…
Ibn al-Nafis, a physician at that time, was able to make theories that were later proven to be right about the human blood circulatory system from what he observed in his animal experimentation studies (“History”). In the 1500’s schools and university started to bring in animals to study anatomy. The animal that would typically be used was the dog. The dog would be cut open and all the organs would be located and identified. The students would then have to know the functions of the organs