Corpus Hippocraticum (about 400 B.C.): The brain as the organ of mind
Man ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations. And by this, in an especial manner, we acquire wisdom and knowledge, and see and hear and know what are foul and what are fair (…) And by the same organ we become mad and delirious, and fears and terrors assail us (…). All these things we endure from the brain (…) In these ways I am of the opinion that the brain excercises the greatest power in the man. [Finger (2000), p. 29]