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They were to transmit this knowledge through teaching, and they were to produce new knowledge through study and research (Farrington, 1949). Later accounts describe the growth of the museum complex into a most imposing assemblage, with courts, botanical gardens, and a zoological park containing exotic animals from the furthest parts of the known world. At its center was a great hall and a circular, domed. dining hall, with an observatory in its upper terrace. These buildings were surrounded by classrooms and demonstration rooms, including dissection laboratories.
16 Egyptian medicine incorporated many fundamental physiological observations about the living body that had been made from ancient times. But the Egyptians’ very complicated religion ruled all. For them, the distinction between life and death was of especially deep concern. The living body is warm, breathes, and moves. Death is the absence of these qualities, and the corpse is cold and still. The heart was the center of life. It is the source of life-giving heat and the house of the soul. The rapid beating of the heart in anger, fear, and surprise indicated that these emotions arose in the heart.
With the choker on, and the air supply diminished, the fire is quickly extinguished; but, if the brazier is cooled by lifting the lid up and down quickly, the heat is conserved, and the coals remain glowing for a long time. The 31 refrigerating operation of respiration is witnessed when one breathes in cold air and breathes out warm (the only known difference between inspired and expired air, therefore, it must have a cooling function). Looking in more detail at the function of respiration in the animal kingdom, in On Respiration, Aristotle observes that hot animals require fullblooded lungs, in order to get the rapid refrigeration necessary to conserve the vital fire of the heart.
