Alphonsus Chong's Personal Wiki

(from History of Medicine)

• applied anatomy –> surgery
• naturalistic drawings
• fabrica anatomy
  • human
  • empiric
• Vesalius vs galenic
• achievement of priority
  • academic importance
  • rivalry

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”

• Lower limb