2.2.4 Dissection & Vesalius

Question 1

Who was Andreas Vesalius and where did he study?

Answer 1

A physician who studied at France and Louvain

Question 2

What title did Vesalius achieve at which university?

Answer 2

Professor of surgery at the University of Padua

Question 3

What did Vesalius think?

Answer 3

Surgery would only improve if people understood the body and the anatomy better

Question 4

How did Vesalius prove Galen wrong?

Answer 4

By dissecting executed criminals

Question 5

What was the result of Vesalius criticising Galen?

Answer 5

He faced opposition and had to leave his job at the University of Padua as Professor of surgery

Question 6

When did Vesalius publish his six anatomical drawings?

Answer 6

1538

Question 7

What did Vesalius publish in 1542?

Answer 7

‘On the Fabric of the Human Body’

Question 8

Copies of Vesalius drawings reached who where?

Answer 8

Physicians in Britain

Question 9

Vesalius is credited with inspiring other anatomists such as..? (2)

Answer 9

• Fabricius

- Fallopius