Tri-State medical journal and practitioner . el Villanovanus (Servetus), deeplyimbued with learning of every kind, and behind none in his knowledge ofGalenical doctrine. With the aid of these two, I have examined the muscles,veins, arteries and nerves of the whole body, and demonstrated them to the Historical Sketch. 225 students. His first anatomical work was issued in 1538, and consisted ofsix plates, which are extremely rare. The figures were drawn by VanCalcar. It is upon the treatise: De Humani Corporis Fabrica, LibriSeptem, that the fame of Vesalius securely rests. The first edition con-
Tri-State medical journal and practitioner . el Villanovanus (Servetus), deeplyimbued with learning of every kind, and behind none in his knowledge ofGalenical doctrine. With the aid of these two, I have examined the muscles,veins, arteries and nerves of the whole body, and demonstrated them to the Historical Sketch. 225 students. His first anatomical work was issued in 1538, and consisted ofsix plates, which are extremely rare. The figures were drawn by VanCalcar. It is upon the treatise: De Humani Corporis Fabrica, LibriSeptem, that the fame of Vesalius securely rests. The first edition con-tained 692 pages, including the index, and was issued from the celebratedpress of Joannes Oporinus, at Basel, in the year 1543. The book is a mag-nificent folio, with elaborate illustrations on wood and many curious initialletters. The Leyden edition, issued in 1725, shows a beautiful half-lengthportrait of the great anatomist, who is engaged in dissecting the forearm ofa woman. Vesalius is represented as standing by the side of a table, on. Initial Letter from De Humani Corporis Fabrica, 1543. the end of which we find this inscription: An. Aet. XXVIII., MDXLIIL,Ocyus^ incunde, et tuto. In the body of the work are found those beautiful anatomical illustra-tions which have served to immortalize both artist and anatomist. Whocan realize the toilsome hours spent in dissection, the zeal and diligence ofthe anatomist, and the anxiety with which he watched the pen of VanCalcar transfer to paper the parts so skillfully separated by the scalpel? Andwhat delight must have filled the soul of Vesalius when the press of Oporinusturned out the last sheets of the Opus Magnum! The pictures, for themost part executed with great accuracy, dexterity and taste, representyoung, well-developed bodies in freely-bold dissections. The book ofVesalius, both in text and illustrations, revolutionized human anatomy. For thirteen centuries the world had followed blindly the teachings ofGalen, whose knowled
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