How many? In 2nd century AD, Galen established 7 pairs of cranial nerves in his De Anatomicis Administrationibus. 1500 years later, in the 17th century, Willis identified 9 pairs in his Cerebri anatome. 100 years later, Samuel Sömmerring numbered the twelve cranial nerves in his doctoral dissertation De basi encephali et originibus nervorum cranio egredentium libri quinque. However, Gray’s…

Idea Posters and presentations are to be indexed the same way that articles are published. Background This allows for access to abstracts, posters and presentations that are presented at meetings. Currently, only few meetings have their abstracts published, that too, only the abstract text. Implementation Meetings will have a backend which does the following functions:…

10,000 BC Tigress-Euphrates valley, Mediterranean & Meso-Amerca – Trephination 17th century BC Ancient Egypt (Source: Edwin Smith papyrus) –  Scientific approach. Examination, diagnosis, and treatment headings for their cases. Ancient Greece (Source – Homer’s Iliad). Use of Klisiai – wounded soldiers cared for separately in the barracks 5-6th century BC Hippocrates (460 – 377BC) – debridement…