THE CONTENTS, in brief: 



• Primitive concepts regarding 

 the dead. 



• Concepts regarding dead among 

 ancient civilizations - 3000 to 

 1000 B. C. 



• Pre -Alexandrian anatomy - 

 1000 to 300 B. C. 



• The Alexandrian school of 

 anatomy - 332 B. C. to A. D. 200. 



• Claudius Galen (A. D. 1 30-200) 

 and his influence on anatomy. 



• Anatomy in the middle ages - 

 A. D. 400 - 1400. 



• Anatomy during the European 

 Renaissance - A. D. 1 350 to 1650. 



• Andreas Vesalius - A. D. 1514 

 to 1564. 



• Dissection on the European 

 Continent and in Asiatic countries 

 during the modern period -A. D. 

 1650 to 1958. 



