Andreas Vesalius

Andreas Vesalius - 

• born in Brussels in 1514
• came form a family of physicians in the 1500s, surgury and anatomy was concidered of little importance in comparison to other branches of medicine
• Vesalius believed that surgery had to be grounded in anatomy
• he always performed dissections himself, which was unusual for this time
• he produced anatomical charts of the blood and nervous systems as a reference aid for his students,which were widely…