Hippocrates and his followers were among the first to systematically observe respiratory diseases.
Unlike modern medicine which views the lungs as a pair, Aristotle consistently referred to them in the ( pleumōn ). He believed: The lung is a single organ that wraps around the heart. greek and lung
Physicians in Alexandria, such as and Erasistratus , moved toward more mechanical explanations: Hippocrates and his followers were among the first
