MEDICAL - VESALIUS Portrait of the great anatomist and doctor, Andreas Vesalius (1493-1541), in 1542. From Vesalius, De Humani Corpori Fabrica, 1542. The first human dissection Vesalius did is said to have been on the cadavre of a criminal, who had been hanged on the gallows at Louvain.

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