From the “Physiologus” to Physiology

The roots of physiology — on the basis of anatomical thinking and mind, which is fundamental idea of the European medicine — go back to Reformation. The following short data from the abundant history of physiology from the ancient speculative natural philosophers to the modern experimental science of our days shows that the history of Reformation and Protestantism on the one side, and the significance of Protestant physicians in the history of Reformation and Protestantism on the other side, deserve our special attention in the history of medicine.