Andreas Vesalius
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- Andreas Vesalius
- Fabrica
- 1543
- Fabric of the Human Body
- Illustrations: Jan Kalker
- Based on dissections
- Printing press helped produce quantities of books
- Factors For Change
- Correct over 200 of Galen's Mistakes
- Challenged Galen
- Sternum
- Has 3 parts not 7
- Jaw
- Has 1 bone not Two
- Uterus
- Bile Duct
- Sternum
- Physical basis of modern medicine
- Encouraged others to dissect bodies themselves
- Backgorund
- Studied at Padua University, Italy
- Lived in the Renaissance period
- Stole a body aged 22
- Moved to Paris
- Lived 1514 - 1564
- Main Ideas
- Dissection
- Executed criminals
- Corrected ideas
- Though a physician should dissect people themselves
- Mapped: Organs Muscles Ligaments Nerves
- Pieced together a 206 bone skeleton
- Dissection
- Limitations
- People thought he was mad
- No new theories of cause and cure of diesase
- Only anatomical drawings
- Fabrica
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