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...about the size of a German shepherd, whose bite is worse than its bark.* In the 19th century, before any organized attempts to eradicate the dingoes, they killed about 500,000 sheep a year, making them Australia's public enemy No. 1. As late as the 1920s, Anatomist Frederic Wood-Jones expressed the national attitude toward the killers. "To say anything in favor of the hated wild dog is treason in Australia...
Though Leonardo was, as everyone knew, chemist and physicist, mechanical engineer, musician, architect, anatomist and botanist as well as painter, it is not wholly possible to draw a dividing line between art and science in his work. Painting was to him a method of inquiry into the world's structure; it was the empiricism of sight itself. He tended to regard it as the queen of the sciences. His scientific work (on water, wind and their catastrophic powers, for instance) was presented in drawings of ravishing subtlety. Their purely descriptive intent in no way affects their aesthetic power...
...After Sir Astley Cooper, a 19th century British anatomist...
...great Belgian anatomist Vesalius believed that the pituitary gland, a pea-sized protuberance located at the base of the brain, was an organ for the secretion of waste material. He could not have been more wrong. Though one of the smallest of man's hormone producers, the pituitary is the master gland. It exercises control or influence over virtually every biological function-including growth-by manufacturing substances that help control the other glands and organs. Thus an underactive pituitary in a child can arrest bodily development and produce a form of dwarfism. Last week a discovery was announced that...
From these fragile bones, a Rumanian-born anatomist and anthropologist at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, Nicu Haas, was able to put together a surprisingly detailed picture of the young man: in his mid-20s at the time of his death, he was of average height for the period (5 ft. 5 in.), had delicate, pleasing features that seemed to approach the Hellenistic ideal, probably wore a beard, and apparently had never performed any really arduous labor-indicating his possible upper-class origins. Except for the injuries inflicted during his crucifixion, he seemed to have been in exceptionally fine health...