5/28/2023 0 Comments Diseases In Wax by Thomas Schnalke![]() ![]() The anatomical pictures of Vesalius were followed by those of Johann Vesling ("Veslingius") and Hieronymus Fabricius. These pictures greatly influenced the creation of future anatomical wax models. The book included drawings of human females and males with their skins dissected. In 1543 Vesalius wrote an anatomical masterwork named in Latin De humani corporis fabrica libri septem ("On the fabric of the human body in seven books"), or in short De Fabrica. At age 25 Vesalius realized that the anatomical knowledge of Galen was derived from animal anatomy and therefore Galen had never dissected a human body. Galen wrote that the bone of the arm is the longest bone in the human body, but Vesalius found that the bone of the thigh is actually the longest bone in human body. For example, Galen wrote that the sternum has seven segments, but Vesalius found it has three segments. He studied many details of human anatomy and found that Galen made some anatomical mistakes. ![]() When he moved to Italy and entered the University of Padua, he began dissecting human bodies. Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564), a Flemish anatomist, was at first a "Galenist" at the University of Paris. ![]()
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