Andreas Vesalius (31 December 1514 – 15 October 1564) was a 16th-century Flemish/Netherlandish anatomist, physician, and author.
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Aristotle and many others say men have more teeth than women; Andreas Vesalius
Aristotle and many others say men have more teeth than women;
I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations. Andreas Vesalius
I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations.
How many things have been accepted on the word of Galen. Andreas Vesalius
How many things have been accepted on the word of Galen.
Galen never inspected a human uterus. Andreas Vesalius
Galen never inspected a human uterus.
Nature, the parent of all things, designed the human backbone to be like a keel or foundation. It is because we have a backbone that we can walk upright and stand erect. Andreas Vesalius
Nature, the parent of all things, designed the human backbone to be like a keel or foundation. It is because we have a backbone that we can walk upright and stand erect.
It was above all in the period after the devastating incursions of the Goths that all branches of knowledge which previously had flourished gloriously and been practiced in the proper manner, began to deteriorate. Andreas Vesalius
It was above all in the period after the devastating incursions of the Goths that all branches of knowledge which previously had flourished gloriously and been practiced in the proper manner, began to deteriorate.
It is no harder for anyone to test this than it is for me to say it is false, since no one is prevented from counting teeth. Andreas Vesalius
It is no harder for anyone to test this than it is for me to say it is false, since no one is prevented from counting teeth.
The more fashionable doctors in Italy, began to delegate to slaves the manual attentions they deemed necessary for their patients ... that the art of medicine went to ruin. Andreas Vesalius
The more fashionable doctors in Italy, began to delegate to slaves the manual attentions they deemed necessary for their patients ... that the art of medicine went to ruin.
As for Galen’s netlike plexus, I do not need to pass on a lot of misinformation about it here, as I am quite sure that I have examined the whole system of the cerebral vessels. Andreas Vesalius
As for Galen’s netlike plexus, I do not need to pass on a lot of misinformation about it here, as I am quite sure that I have examined the whole system of the cerebral vessels.
Aristotle in particular, and quite a few others, thought that the nerves took origin from the heart. Andreas Vesalius
Aristotle in particular, and quite a few others, thought that the nerves took origin from the heart.
But this was not the only purpose for which Nature provided it; here, as elsewhere, she displayed great skill in turning the construction of a single member to a variety of different uses. Andreas Vesalius
But this was not the only purpose for which Nature provided it; here, as elsewhere, she displayed great skill in turning the construction of a single member to a variety of different uses.
There is no occasion for making things up, since we are certain that Galen was deluded by his dissection of ox brains and described the cerebral vessels, not of a human but of oxen. Andreas Vesalius
There is no occasion for making things up, since we are certain that Galen was deluded by his dissection of ox brains and described the cerebral vessels, not of a human but of oxen.