Tri-State medical journal and practitioner (1897) (14591648250)
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Identifier: tristatemedicalj4189unse (find matches)
Title: Tri-State medical journal and practitioner
Year: 1897 (1890s)
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Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: St. Louis : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities
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erved to immortalize both artist and anatomist. Whocan realize the toilsome hours spent in dissection, the zeal and diligence ofthe anatomist, and the anxiety with which he watched the pen of VanCalcar transfer to paper the parts so skillfully separated by the scalpel? Andwhat delight must have filled the soul of Vesalius when the press of Oporinusturned out the last sheets of the Opus Magnum! The pictures, for themost part executed with great accuracy, dexterity and taste, representyoung, well-developed bodies in freely-bold dissections. The book ofVesalius, both in text and illustrations, revolutionized human anatomy. For thirteen centuries the world had followed blindly the teachings ofGalen, whose knowledge of anatomy was derived from dissection of the loweranimals. It was not until the year 1315 that the study of practical human 226 Historical Sketch anatomy was revived. Even then, overawed by the authority of^ thedivine man, anatomists dared not record the facts they knew. Galen
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vSkeletou from De Huniani Corporis Fabrica, 1543. (Reduced one-half.) taught that the septum of the heart was filled with foramina for the passageof blood from one ventricle to the other. Mundinus, the first anatomical Historical Sketch. 227 writer after Galen, repeated the error a thousand years later, and a score ofservile followers reiterated the falsehood. Berengarius Carpus, in 1521, de-clared that the openings could be seen only with great difficulty in man; sed in homine cum maxima dijficidtate videnter). In his first editionYesalius fell into the same pit. In the edition of 1555, however, he statesthat, influenced by the views of Galen, he believed that the blood passedfrom the right to the left ventricle of the heart by means of the septal open-ings. He immediately proceeds to correct the error, and states that theseptum is hard, dense, and impervious, and does not permit the passage ofblood. A thorough master of the subject of anatomy, Vesalius was not free fromthe physiolog
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