(from History of Medicine)
p287:
Their (anatomists) prefaces and introductions were filled with encomia for their discipline.
Human anatomy as a subject and form and relationship to christianity
Anatomy - religion & history
Vesalius as a figurehead –> p291 “autopsia”
Lumpers vs splitters; hedghog & fox
p292. “Memento Mori” –> public dissections
Cremonini –> “causes”