Cumston has given
an excellent summary of it (Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin,
1912, XXIII, 105-113).
And now came the real maker of modern anatomy. Andreas Vesalius had a
good start in life. Of a family long associated with the profession,
his father occupied the position of apothecary to Charles V, whom he
accompanied on his journeys and campaigns. Trained at Louvain, he had,
from his earliest youth, an ardent desire to dissect, and cut up mice
and rats, and even cats and dogs. To Paris, the strong school of the
period, he went in 1533, and studied under two men of great renown,
Jacob Sylvius and Guinterius. Both were strong Galenists and regarded
the Master as an infallible authority. He had as a fellow prosector,
under the latter, the unfortunate Servetus. The story of his troubles
and trials in getting bones and subjects you may read in Roth's
"Life."(20) Many interesting biographical details are also to be found
in his own writings. He returned for a time to Louvain, and here he
published his first book, a commentary on the "Almansor" of Rhazes, in
1537.
(20) M. Roth: Andreas Vesalius Bruxellensis, Berlin, 1892. An
excellent account of Vesalius and his contemporaries is given by
James Moores Ball in his superbly printed Andreas Vesalius, the
Reformer of Anatomy, St.
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