This son of an architect developed the first cold cream for makeup removal,
This son of an architect developed the first cold cream for makeup removal, but his knowledge was derived mostly from animal rather than human dissection. As a physiologist, he made many mistakes, such as incorrectly assuming that the rete mirabile, a plexus of blood vessels at the base of the brain of ungulate animals, was also present in humans. After this medical writer died serious anatomical and physiological research ground to a halt for 1500 years. FTP name this court physician to Marcus Aurelius from Pergamon.
This son of an architect developed the first cold cream for makeup removal, but his knowledge was derived mostly from animal rather than human dissection.