History

Renaissance Medical Knowledge

Vesalius

• Vesalius was the first practiconer
• He trained at Louvian, Paris and Padua Universites
• He went through cementries and found bones and bodies to dissect

1536

• He discovered the spermatic vessels
• He found out that Galen could be wrong when he discovered that the great man was mistaken about there being two bones in the jaw, and about how muscles were attatched to the bone.

1537

• Vesalius became the Professor of Medicine at…