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/tFTER the writings of Galen, the next work of importance on 



l\ anatomy is that of MONDINUS, who was Professor in Bologna, 



and died there in 1318. His written works were printed in 1478. 



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One edition forms part of the Fasciculus Medicince of JOANNES A 

 KETHAM (1494). It has a woodcut, attributed to the Venetian 

 School of Bellini, representing the anatomist dissecting the human 

 body, which is, according to R. Willis, the first representation of the 

 kind that exists. In the edition of his works with commentaries by 

 Jacobus Carpus, i.e. Berengarius Carpus (Bonon. 1521) — a quarto of 

 527 pages — there is an excellent description of the heart and its 

 valves — " Valvulas in vasorum cordis orificiis, ostiola vocat " (Douglas). 

 The edition Anatomia Mundini, by Io. Dryandrum (Marpurgi 1537), 

 consists of 67 pages, illustrated by several rather crude woodcuts. 



FIRST KNOWN PICTURE OF AN ANATOMICAL DISSECTION. 



The works of the " famous J. Berengarius of Carpus . . . adorned with 

 many demonstrative figures," were "done into English by H. Jackson, 

 Surgeon, London, 1644, pag. 376. Cum Prcefatione D. Wharton." 

 Perhaps it may be of interest to note that, according to Douglas, 

 Berengarius was the first to describe the appendix coed. Moreover, 

 "Inunctionis ex Hydrargyro in cura Luis Venereae primus fuit 



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