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the birth of Harvey, gave to the world 

 his great work, — " The Structure of the 

 Human Body." 



*Quite recently, Jackschath, an Austrian in- 

 vestigator, writes that Leonardo Da Vinci, and not 

 Vesalius, was the father of scientific anatomy; and 

 Vesalius is branded as one of the greatest of 

 " plagiarists." Da Vinci was a genius in nearly 

 all departments. He was too busy a man to have 

 produced a profound work on anatomy: He was 

 a painter, poet, sculptor, architect, musician, mathe- 

 matician, hydraulic engineer, as well as an anat- 

 omist. His name will be longer remembered 

 as the painter of The Last Supper. 



Marc Antonio Delia Torre (1473-1506), a pro- 

 fessor at Padua and Pavia, was a distinguished 

 anatomist, for whom Leonardo Da Vinci designed 

 his anatomical plates. " So perfect were these, 

 that it is difficult to determine whether the pro- 

 fessor or the painter was the greater anatomist, 

 especially as Da Vinci wrote on anatomy." — 

 (Baas). Da Vinci dissected the horse and other 

 inferior animals, as well as the human body. He 

 made his celebrated sketch-book of drawings in 

 red chalk, now in the Royal Library at Windsor. 

 He wrote with the left hand, and, like the 

 Hebrews, from behind forward, so that his works 

 could only be deciphered with the assistance of a 

 mirror. It has been conjectured from this pecu- 

 liarity that his right hand was paralyzed. 



Leonardo Da Vinci was born in 1452, and 

 died May 2, 1519, — to be precise, four years, 

 four months, and two days after Vesalius was 

 born. Vesalius may have received considerable 

 information, and possibly what is greater, an in- 

 spiration, from the work of Da Vinci, but it is 

 not to be doubted that Vesalius was an original 

 investigator in the field of anatomy, and his 

 great work, "The Structure of the Human Body," 

 should not, on doubtful evidence, be labeled as 

 the work of a " plagiarist." 



Sir B. W. Richardson, who painted the draw- 

 ings made from the dissections by Vesalius, 

 after a great deal of study of the question, does 

 not mention Leonardo Da Vinci, but says: " It 

 seems to be generally accepted that the plates 

 came from the studio of Titian." 



Vicary, Thomas.— An English anatomist 

 and surgeon, about the middle of the 



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