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Page 133 - Vesalius, believing a young Spanish nobleman whom he had attended to be dead, obtained from his parents leave to open him, for the sake of inquiring into the real cause of his illness, which he had not rightly comprehended. This was granted; but he had no sooner made a cut into the body than he perceived the symptoms of life, and opening the breast saw the heart beat. The parents coming afterwards to know of this, were not satisfied with prosecuting him for murder, but accused him of impiety to the...
Page 23 - ... death, were air-vessels. He believed that the purpose of respiration was to fill the arteries with air ; the air distended the arteries, made them beat, and in this manner the pulse was produced. When once the air gained entrance to the left ventricle, it became the vital spirits. The function of the veins was to carry blood to the extremities. He is said to have had a vague idea of the division of nerves into nerves of sensation and of motion; to the former he assigned an origin in the membranes...
Page 70 - Now there had been executed on that spot a noted robber, who, since he deserved more than ordinary hanging, had been chained to the top of a high stake, and roasted alive. He had been roasted by a slow fire made of straw, that was kept burning at some distance below his feet. In that way there had been a dish cooked for the fowls of heaven, which had been regarded by them as a special dainty.
Page 129 - ... medicine, Vesalius was called to reside permanently at Madrid, the summons was attended with so many circumstances showing the success of those who clamoured at his writings, that in a fit of proud indignation he spent one unlucky hour in burning all his manuscripts. Thus he destroyed a huge volume of annotations upon Galen — a whole book of medical formulae — many original notes upon drugs — the copy of Galen from which he lectured, covered with marginal notes of new observations that...
Page 70 - The sweet flesh of the delicately roasted thief they had preferred to any other ; his bones, therefore, had been elaborately picked, and there was left . suspended on the stake a skeleton dissected out, and cleaned by many beaks with rare precision. The dazzling skeleton, complete and clean, was lifted up on high before the eyes of the anatomist, who had been striving hitherto to piece together such a thing out of the bones of many people, gathered as occasion offered.
Page 70 - In that way there had been a dish cooked for the fowls of heaven, which had been regarded by them as a special dainty. The sweet flesh of the delicately roasted thief they had preferred to every other; his bones, therefore, had been elaborately picked, and there was left suspended on the stake a skeleton dissected out and cleaned by many beaks with rare precision. The dazzling skeleton, complete and clean, was lifted up on high before the eyes of the anatomist...
Page 108 - ... his idea of the movement was that of an ebb and flow. In reference to the anatomy of the blood-vessels, he goes so far as to say of the portal vein and the vena cava in the liver that " the extreme ramifications of these veins inosculate with each other, and in many places appear to unite and be continuous.
Page 23 - ... generosity of the Ptolemys furnished them with an abundance of material in the shape of condemned criminals. It has even been asserted that Herophilus was accustomed to dissect living criminals, in the vain hope that among the bleeding entrails and in the heaving thorax he might find the secret of life. Herophilus made many anatomical discoveries. He traced the delicate arachnoid membrane into the ventricles of the brain, which he held to be the seat of the soul; and first described that junction...
Page 127 - Vesalius. At the goldsmith's cost, therefore, the shipwrecked man was buried among strangers. After his death a great work on surgery appeared, in seven books, signed with his name, and commonly included among his writings. There is reason, however, to believe that his name was stolen to give value to the book, which was compiled and published by a Venetian, Prosper Bogarucci, a literary crow, who fed himself upon the dead man's reputation.
Page 134 - Inquisition, in the hope that he would be punished with greater rigour by the judges of that tribunal than by those of the common law. But the King of Spain interfered and saved him, on condition, however, that by way of atonement he should make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
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| Title | Andreas Vesalius: The Reformer of Anatomy |
| Author | James Moores Ball |
| Publisher | Medical science Press, 1910 |
| Length | 149 pages |
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