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Aristotle
( 384 BC - 322 BC )

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Greek polymath Aristotle noted that pressing a finger against the carotid artery in the neck caused a patient to become unconscious. He provably didn't realise that this reversible loss of consciousness cut off the supply of blood to the brain.

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