James Moores Ball

PREFACE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER FIRST Anatomy in Ancient Times

CHAPTER SECOND Mondino, the Restorer of Anatomy

CHAPTER THIRD Mondino's Successors

CHAPTER FOURTH Vesalius's Early Life

CHAPTER FIFTH Sojourn in Paris

CHAPTER SIXTH Vesalius Returns to Louvain

CHAPTER SEVENTH Professor of Anatomy in Padua

CHAPTER EIGHTH First Contribution to Anatomy

CHAPTER NINTH Publication of the Fabrica

CHAPTER TENTH Publication of the Epitome

CHAPTER ELEVENTH Contents of the Fabrica

CHAPTER TWELFTH Contemporary Anatomists

CHAPTER THIRTEENTH Commentators and Plagiarists

CHAPTER FOURTEENTH The Court Physician

CHAPTER FIFTEENTH Pilgrimage and Death

FOOTNOTES

INDEX

INDEX (2)

Transcriber's Notes

And. Vesalius

Copyrighted, 1910
By James Moores Ball
All rights reserved

TO THE MEMORY
OF THOSE ILLUSTRIOUS MEN
WHO
OFTEN UNDER ADVERSE CIRCUMSTANCES
AND
SOMETIMES IN DANGER OF DEATH
SUCCEEDED IN UNRAVELLING THE MYSTERIES
OF THE STRUCTURE OF THE HUMAN BODY,
TO THE FATHERS OF ANATOMY
AND
TO THE ARTIST-ANATOMISTS
THIS BOOK
IS DEDICATED