Tri-State medical journal and practitioner . esalius was descended from illustrious ancestors. Medicine ran in theveins of the family. Three weasels formed the family arms of Andreas,whose name was properly Wesalius. Peter Wesalius, the great-great-grandfather of Andreas, was a famous physician; Kverard, his grandfather,wrote commentaries upon Hippocrates and Rhazes; and his father was anapothecary to a relative of Charles V. Educated in medicine at Montpellierand Paris, Vesalius at an early age began to teach anatomy at the Univer-sity of Lou vain. So thorough had been his preparatory educati
Tri-State medical journal and practitioner . esalius was descended from illustrious ancestors. Medicine ran in theveins of the family. Three weasels formed the family arms of Andreas,whose name was properly Wesalius. Peter Wesalius, the great-great-grandfather of Andreas, was a famous physician; Kverard, his grandfather,wrote commentaries upon Hippocrates and Rhazes; and his father was anapothecary to a relative of Charles V. Educated in medicine at Montpellierand Paris, Vesalius at an early age began to teach anatomy at the Univer-sity of Lou vain. So thorough had been his preparatory education that heread the works of Greek and Arab authors in the original. In 1537, in histwenty-second year, he was elected professor of anatomy at Padua. Thischair, the first purely anatomical professorship ever, instituted, he held forseven years, being at the same time professor at Bologna and Pisa. Theintellectual movement of the northeast of Italy, says M. Renan, is alto-gether connected with that of Padua. Now, the universities of Padua and. Ligamenti in Tendibus Coutineutis Uses. (Vesalius.)
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