But the strong, confident look was on his face and with
the courage of youth and sure of the future, he would picture a happy
return to attack new and untried problems. Little did he dream that his
happy days as student and teacher were finished, that his work as an
anatomist was over, that the most brilliant and epoch-making part of his
career as a professor was a thing of the past. A year or more was spent
at Basel with his friend Oporinus supervising the printing of the
great work, which appeared in 1543 with the title "De Humani Corporis
Fabrica." The worth of a book, as of a man, must be judged by results,
and, so judged, the "Fabrica" is one of the great books of the world,
and would come in any century of volumes which embraced the richest
harvest of the human mind. In medicine, it represents the full flower
of the Renaissance. As a book it is a sumptuous tome a worthy setting
of his jewel--paper, type and illustration to match, as you may see for
yourselves in this folio--the chef d'oeuvre of any medical library.
In every section, Vesalius enlarged and corrected the work of Galen.
Into the details we need not enter: they are all given in Roth's
monograph, and it is a chapter of ancient history not specially
illuminating.
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