Andreas Vesalius
Andreas Vesalius was the first person in the medical renaissance to stand up and say that Galen is slightly wrong.
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- Created on: 28-03-13 09:36
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- Andreas Vesalius
- Background
- He was born in Brussels in 1514. He studied medicine in Paris and Italy. Then he became professor of surgery in Padua in Italy. He died in 1564
- Before Vesalius
- Doctors believed that the books of Galen were completely accurate and didn't want to learn anything else about anatomy through dissection
- After Vesalius
- He showed that Galen was slightly wrong about anatomy. He said that Galen was wrong because he dissected animals rather than humans
- Things he discovered
- He discovered that Galen was wrong about the human jaw bone. It is made out of one piece not two
- He discovered that blood does not move through the septum, as Galen previously said.
- Things he said
- He said that it is vital that doctors dissect human bodies to find out more about the human structure and how it works
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