Anatomy from Renaissance to Revolution

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• Anatomy from Renaissance to Revolutiona
  sordid past!
• Anatomical history all began in the Middle Ages
  with a Greek physician called Claudius Galan
  (129-216AD).
• This Greek physician was dubbed the Prince of
  Physicians and his collection of sketches held
  as a Grays Anatomy of the Ancient World until
  approximately 1500 years later.
• HOWEVER.there was a slight problem. Galans
  drawings were based on the anatomy of dogs rather
  than that of humans. Galan assumed they were the
  sameas you do.
• So, during the 16th century, despite bans on
  dissection by the Church, HUGE discoveries were
  made.
• Leonardo da Vinci was a main figurehead of these
  discoveries whose SECRET preoccupation with
  morgues led to the production of many images of
  human anatomy which challenged Galans.
• However, the physician Vesalius was the first to
  openly state, upon reading Galans texts," These
  are pictures of animals not humans!, and set to
  proving Galans longstanding medical theories as
  utterly false.
• Vesalius wrote his own text, entitled De Humani
  Corporis Fabrica (The Fabric of Human
  Anatomy), which replaced Galans as gold in the
  medical arena. See Vesaliuss Muscle Men
  pictures from the De Humani Corporis Fabrica
• Of course, other physicians and students then
  went on to challenge some of Vesaliuss theories
  and the study of anatomy flourished during the
  17th and 18th centuries.
• Famous artists like Michelangelo and Rembrandt
  started to study anatomy, attend dissections and
  publish drawings for money.
• Dissections were still banned, but it was
  perfectly legal to attend them
• THUS, what Vesalius had started was now
  progressing throughout the medical world. People
  wanted the truth. Anatomy was progressing!