 There is no evidence, however, that Alcmaeon dissected the eye itself or that he dissected the skull in order to trace the optic nerve all the way to the brain. Alcmaeon’s account of the other senses, far from suggesting that he carried out dissections in order to explain their function, implies that he did not (Lloyd 1975; for a partial critique of Lloyd see Perilli 2001). Alcmaeon’s conclusion that all of the senses are connected to the brain may have been drawn from nothing more than the excision of the eye and the general observation that the sense organs for sight, hearing, smell, and taste are located on the head and appear connected to passages which lead inward towards the brain (Gomperz 1953, 69). It is striking in this regard that Alcmaeon gave no account of touch (DK, A5), which is the only sense not specifically tied to the head. It would be a serious mistake then to say that Alcmaeon discovered dissection or that he was the father of anatomy, since there is no evidence that he used dissection systematically or even that he did more than excise a single eyeball.