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media type="custom" key="4652219" __Script__: Andreas Vesalius was born in December of 1514 in Brussels, Belgium. He like the rest of his family went after a career in medicine. Many people refer to Vesalius as the founder of human antonmy and he is also credited as being one of the few who started the scientific revolution. In his medical career, he was a physican for various royal people across Europe. Vesalius attended some of the finest universites all around Europe to earn his medical degree, to teach, and to do research on the human body. Some of these universities are: the university of Paris, university of Pivia, university of Bolonga, university of Padua, and the university of Lueven. He used different methods then other teachers. He would disect things while lecturing at the same time. Other teachers would have some one disect for them while they lectured.

Vesalius is credited for showing the relations between muscels, tendions, bones, and jionts. He discrbed that and other body functions and structures in his book //De humani corporis fabrica.// He wrote this book while teaching at the University of Padua. His book proved that Galen's work was wrong and he went further to describe the body in great detail.Vesalius's book was the first book to show accurate digrams and pictures of body structures. He employed artists to make the images in his book. That is why his book is well known.

This describe Vesalius's other works which where found in his book //De humani corporis fabrica.// Vesalius defined a nerve as what we know it today. Then he claimed that ligaments, tendons, and aponeuroses were the three types of nerve units. Vesalius believed that nerves stemmed from the brain rather then the heart. He concluded from his studies that nerves were not hollow. Vesalius accepted a false claim that the liver was where blood production occurs. He disproved Galen's belief that the liver had five lobes, and stated that it had one lobe. Veslius claimed that kidneys served as a filter for the blood. He showed the connections between the stomach, the spleen and the colon. Vesalius believed that muscles requirer voluntary motion. From that belief he dicided that the heart was not a muscel. One of Vesalius major contributations was they he showed an extremely accurate digram of the brain and kabeling all the parts. He believed that the brain and the nervous system was the center of mind and emotion compared to the heart being the center. Vesalius said that it was a one piece bone that made up the skull, Galen had thought it was two separate bones. He accurately described the interior of the bone of the skull. Vesalius disproved the common belief that men had one rib fewer than women. Vesalius discovered that the human sternum only consisted of three parts. Vesalius’ most impressive contribution to the study of the muscular system is the incredible illustrations in //De humani corporis fabrica.// He describes the source and position of each muscle of the body as well as providing information on their operations. Upon his dissections of the heart, Vesalius described all functions of the heart and how bllod flow occured.

He claimed medicine was seperated into three parts: drugs, diet, and the use of hands (surgery and disections). Modern medicine ows everything to the efforts put forth by Vesalius. Relying on his own observations, Vesalius created a new scientific method. He desired to strive for the truth is shown through his attempts to correct his own claims and thoughts on the human body. Vesalius was able to provide clear descriptions and drawings that set a new standards for future medical books.

After many accomplishments to science and medicine, Vesalius died. He died in June of 1564. Many say he he died on the island of Zacynthus but others say that he died in a shipwreck.

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 * Andreas Vesalius was born into a family of physicans on December of 1514 in Brussels.
 * He died in June, 1564 on the island of Zacynthus.
 * He is often refered to as "the founder of human anatonmy."
 * He was one of few people who credited for starting the scientific revolution.
 * He taught anatonmy at the Universities of: Pivia, Bologna, and Padua.
 * He studied and earned his medical degrees at the Universities of: Paris, Padua, and Lueven.
 * He taught differently then others; he did the disections while lecturing at the same time.
 * He was one of the first to show the relations between muscels, tendions, bones, and jionts.
 * While theaching at the University of Padua, he wrote one of the most important anatomy books: //De humani corporis fabrica// (1543).
 * This book proved Galen's work on human anatomy was wrong and described human anatomy in great detail.
 * He then left University of Padua because Emperor Charles V asked Vesalius to work as a physican for him and his son Philip II.
 * A Paduan judge became interested in the work Vesalius was doing and made bodies of executed criminals available for dissection. Vesalius soon built detailed anatomical diagrams, the first accurate set to be produced.
 * Vesalius tried to argue his anatomy of the human was more relistic then that of Galen.
 * He sasid that Galen disected apes and said that humans antonmy was almost identical to the apes.
 * Vesalius employed talented artists to provide pictures of the human body. this is a very important feature of his book.

These bullets go into detail about what Vesalius discovered compared to Galen's work.
 * Vesalius defined a nerve as the mode of transmitting sensation and motion and thus refuted his contemporaries’ claims that ligaments, tendons and aponeuroses were three types of nerve units.
 * He believed that nerves do not originate from the heart, as was the [|Aristotelian] belief, but that nerves stemmed from the brain.
 * Upon studying the [|optic nerve], Vesalius came to the conclusion that nerves were not hollow.
 * Vesalius accepted [|Galen]’s inaccurate claim that the [|liver] was the locale of blood production, he would not accept that the vena cava stems from the liver.
 * He disproved Galen’s belief that the liver consisted of five lobes, and stated that is, instead, one lobe.
 * In //De fabrica//, he corrected an earlier claim he made in //Tabulae// about the right kidney being set higher than the left. Vesalius claimed that the kidneys were not a filter device for the urine to pass through but rather that the kidneys serve to filter blood as well and that the excrement then traveled through the [|ureters] to the bladder.
 * He described the [|omentum], and its connections with the stomach, the spleen and the colon and gave the first correct views of the structure of the [|pylorus].
 * He observed the small size of the [|caecal appendix] in man and gave the first good account of the [|mediastinum] and [|pleura].
 * Vesalius believed that a criterion for muscles was their voluntary motion. On this claim, he deduced that the heart was not a true muscle due to its obvious involuntary nature of its motion.
 * He identified two chambers and two atria. The [|right atrium] was considered a continuation of the [|inferior] and [|superior] [|venae cavae] and the [|left atrium] was considered a continuation of the [|pulmonary vein].
 * Vesalius’ most significant contribution to the study of the brain was his trademark illustrations in which he depicts the [|corpus callosum], the [|thalamus], the [|caudate nucleus], the [|lenticular nucleus], the [|globus pallidus], the [|putamen], the [|pulvinar], and the [|cerebral peduncles] for the first time.
 * Vesalius believed that the brain and the nervous system are center of the mind and emotion compared to the heart being the center of the body.
 * Claimed medicine was arranged into three parts: drugs, diet, and 'the use of hands' - mainly suggesting surgery and the knowledge of anatomy and physiology through dissection.
 * Modern medicine is in debt to the efforts put forth by Vesalius. His ethics to provided the most accurate form of the human body. The manner in which Vesalius tended to his work could arguably be thought of as more significant than the work itself.
 * By overthrowing the Galenic tradition and relying on his own observations, Vesalius created a new scientific method. His desire to strive for the truth is most evident through his ability to correct his own claims and to continually reshape his thoughts on the human body.
 * Through his attention to detail, he was able to provide clear descriptions and unprecedented anatomical drawings that set a new standard for future medical books.
 * Vesalius said that it was a one piece bone that made up the skull, whereas [|Galen] had thought it was two separate bones.
 * He accurately described the [|vestibule] in the interior of the [|temporal] bone of the skull.
 * Vesalius also disproved the common belief that men had one rib fewer than women and noted that [|fibula] and [|tibia] bones of the leg were indeed larger than the [|humerus] bone of the arm, unlike [|Galen]’s original findings.
 * Vesalius discovered that the human [|sternum] only consisted of three parts.
 * Vesalius’ most impressive contribution to the study of the [|muscular system] may be the incredible illustrations that accompany the text in //De fabrica//, which would become known as the "muscle men". He beautifully describes the source and position of each muscle of the body as well as providing information on their respective operations.
 * Vesalius’ work on the [|vascular] and [|circulatory systems] may be his most significant and complex contribution to modern medicine.
 * Upon his dissections of the heart, Vesalius became confident that [|Galen]’s claims of a porous [|intraventricular] [|septum] were false. It wasn’t until the second edition of //De fabrica// that he stated that the [|septum] was indeed impermeable, thus discovering (and naming) the [|mitral valve] to explain the blood flow.
 * He not only verified the observation of [|Etienne] on the valves of the [|hepatic veins], but he described the [|vena azygos], and discovered the canal which passes in the fetus between the [|umbilical vein] and the vena cava, since named [|ductus venosus].
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