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...anatomical studies, taken as a whole, represent the greatest leap in knowledge of the body made by any man in history, until Vesalius published his epochal De Humani Carporis Fabrica in 1543, nearly a quarter-century after Leonardo's death. Indeed, many of the artist's discoveries would not be rediscovered until well into the 18th century. What medical history might have been if most of Leonardo's notebooks had not been scattered or lost one can only guess...
...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...
...been shown outside Antwerp only twice-in Belgrade and Paris' Bibliotheque Nationale. Last week a generous portion of the collection was on view at Dartmouth College in the hills of Hanover, N.H. Some rare and old items: a Spanish manuscript of a medical treatise by Andreas Vesalius and Juan Valverda, ten title pages designed by Peter Paul Rubens, and such fastidious examples of the illustrator's art as the drawing of the Adoration of the Shepherds by Martin...
...studies than the freshman anatomy class in which he learns how the human body is put together by taking one apart. But dissection of the dead has always filled nonmedical men with horror. Popes and emperors have forbidden it. Such great artist-anatomists as Da Vinci and Vesalius had to cut through layers of superstition and prejudice before they could use the dead to reveal the secrets of life. Ghouls such as Britain's famed Body-snatchers Burke and Hare committed murder to supply the anatomists' demand, and added the word "burking" to the language. Even today...
...right place. The Metropolitan shows a precise study by Leonardo of a baby in a womb. Raphael spent long hours dissecting; Curator Mayor shows how his later figures lose their smooth look and take on bone structure and strong, adult muscles. Not until 1543, when the Belgian Anatomist Andreas Vesalius published his book of superb anatomical drawings, did artists have a text...