950 WILLIAM A. LOCY 
notes, 223 plates and upwards of 750 figures, with an introduction 
by Duval. These anatomical illustrations, executed about 1510, 
are in all particulars the most notable contribution to anatomy 
before Vesalius. 
J. Dryander, Anatomia Mundini, and other old writers, Mar- 
burg, 1541, 70 leaves and 44 illustrations. 
W. H. Ryff, Anotomi (very long title), 1541, woodcuts. 
For collateral reading the treatises of Choulant, Chievitz, 
Hopf, Hyrtl, Roth, Pagel, Sudhoff, Toply, Weindler and Wieger 
have been of especial service. In Wieger are found photographic 
reproductions of visceral dissections from Reisch’s Margarita 
philosophiea, 1503 and 1504, forming a link in the development of 
anatomical sketches. JI am greatly indebted to the contributions 
of Sudhoff for general enlightenment, for knowledge of the manu- 
script sources and for an illustrated account of Brunschwig’s 
Anatomy in his Chirurgie, 1497. 
Mundinus. (Mondino, ete.; the Romanized form of his name 
is used here because his book was chiefly printed in Latin.) The 
anatomy of Mundinus (Anatome omnium humani corporis inte- 
riorum membrorum, De omnibus humani corporis interioribus 
membris anatomia, Incipit Anathomia Mundini, etc.), although 
not the first treatise on anatomy to be illustrated, is the natural 
starting point for a consideration of pre-Vesalian anatomy. 
Appearing, in manuscript, in 1316, it was the first professional 
treatise on anatomy after more than eleven centuries of Galen. 
On account of the extensive use in medical schools it forms the 
genetic link between the ancient anatomy and that of the renais- 
sance period. It was the forerunner of the anatomical treatises 
that appeared before the epoch-making book of Vesalius. 
Mundinus, on account of the influence of his teaching and of 
his treatise, looms large in the background of historical anatomy. 
He helped to overcome the opposition to dissection and he is 
usually credited with having brought the practice into general 
recognition. Although he was a pioneer in the restoration of 
anatomy, his way had been prepared by others. De Mondeville 
as early as 13804 had been illustrating his lectures on anatomy at 
Montpellier; the Senate of Venice had decreed in 1308 that a 
