Observational anatomical drawing of a human showing the removal of skin and muscles to show the human skeleton. Vesalius’ ‘Fabric of the Human Body’ was a turning point in medicine for the detailed drawings and descriptions it offered of human anatomy.
Left image: Observational anatomical drawing of a human. Due to it’s detailed accurate labelled drawings and accompanying text Vesalius’ ‘Fabric of the Human Body’ was a turning point in the history of medicine. Right image: Observational anatomical drawing of a human showing the skin removed and muscles below. Vesalius labelled all the detailed drawings and …
The title page of the 2nd edition of Vesalius’ ‘Fabric of the Human Body’, 1555. The image shows Vesalius performing a dissection with people watching.
Page 882. Image of 17th century prosthetic limb.
An illustration from Harvey’s ‘Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals’ illustrating an experiment to show how blood is pumped around the body and that the valves in the veins will only allow the blood to flow in one direction. This disproved Galen who had said the liver created fresh blood.
Title page of William Harvey’s ‘The Anatomical Exercises of Dr William Harvey concerning the motion of the Heart and Blood’. Along with his book entitled On the Motion of the Heart’ he challenged the work of Galen. Through close observation and working on cold blooded amphibians he could see that blood was pumped around the …
Harvey included a letter of dedication to Charles I, King of England in his book The Anatomical Exercises of Willian Harvey concerning the motion of the Heart and Blood, showing the importance of royal patronage in developing new medical theories. Despite being physician to both James I and Charles I many doctors refused to believe …
Chapter III: What manner of motion the Arteries have in dissection of living creatures. In this Chapter, Harvey describes how the arteries ensure that the blood is pumped around the body in one direction.