ANDREAS VESALIUS-A.D. 1514 to 1564 95 



D. Professor of Anatomy at the University of Padua 



After his studies at the University of Paris were completed 

 (1536), Vesalius returned to Louvain, Belgium where he became 

 affiliated with the University. Apparently, one of the biggest 

 events of the year was an expedition made to a gallows outside 

 of the walls of Louvain in search of bones; accompanying him 



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figure 8. Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564). From Garrison, F. H.: An Intro- 

 luction to the History of Medicine, Fourth edition. Philadelphia, W. B. 

 Saunders Company, 1929. By permission of W. B. Saunders Company. 



