Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Catalogue of an Exhibition of Items of Medico-Historical Interest: Exhibited by Mortimer Frank, S. B., M.D., At the Sixty-Ninth Annual Session of the American Medical Association, June 10 to 14, 1918
Vesalius revolutionized the teachings of the anatomy of the human body and overthrew the then prevailing teachings of Galen, who yhad based his work only upon animal dissection.
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