. Some apostles of physiology : being an account of their lives and labours, labours that have contributed to the advancement of the healing art as well as to the prevention of disease. /tFTER the writings of Galen, the next work of importance on1~\ anatomy is that of MONDINUS, who was Professor in Bologna,and died there in 1318. His written works were printed in edition forms part of the Fasciculus Medicinoe of JOANNES AKETHAM (1494). It has a woodcut, attributed to the VenetianSchool of Bellini, representing the anatomist dissecting the humanbody, which is, according to R. Willis, t
. Some apostles of physiology : being an account of their lives and labours, labours that have contributed to the advancement of the healing art as well as to the prevention of disease. /tFTER the writings of Galen, the next work of importance on1~\ anatomy is that of MONDINUS, who was Professor in Bologna,and died there in 1318. His written works were printed in edition forms part of the Fasciculus Medicinoe of JOANNES AKETHAM (1494). It has a woodcut, attributed to the VenetianSchool of Bellini, representing the anatomist dissecting the humanbody, which is, according to R. Willis, the first representation of thekind that exists. In the edition of his works with commentaries byJacobus Carpus, Berengarius Carpus (Bonon. 1521)—a quarto of527 pages—there is an excellent description of the heart and itsvalves— Valvulas in vasorum cordis orificiis, ostiola vocat (Douglas).The edition Anatomia Mundini, by Io. Dryandrum (Marpurgi 1537),consists of 67 pages, illustrated by several rather crude FIRST KNOWN PICTURE OF AN ANATOMICAL DISSECTION. The works of the famous J. Berengarius of Carpus . . adorned withmany demonstrative figures, were done into English by H. Jackson,Surgeon, London, 1644, pag. 376. Cum Prcefatione D. it may be of interest to note that, according to Douglas,Berengarius was the first to describe the appendix cceci. Moreover,Inunctionis ex Hydrargyro in cura Luis Venerese primus fuit A ( 2 ) inventor. Passing over the picturesque story of that learned physicianFRANCOIS RABELAIS (1483-1553), the immortal author ofPantagruel and creator of Doctor Rondibilis, we come to JACOBUSSYLVIUS—Jacques du Bois—who was born at Amiens in 1478, anddied in 1555, vet. 77. Sylvius, from 1531, lectured at Paris to largeaudiences, and his fame as a lecturer attracted many students,including Vesalius. He succeeded the Florentine Vidus Vidius inthe Chair of Medicine in the College de France, which was foundedby Francois I. in 15
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