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apothecary to Maximillian
- enrolled him in the Brethren of the
Common Life
Jacques Dubois
Galen
Jean Fernel
Accomplishments of Vesalius
Vesalius traveled through Italy, and assisted
the future Pope Paul IV and Ignatius of Loyola
healing those afflicted by Hansen’s disease
(leprosy).
Vesalius published his first anatomical
Skeletal System
Muscular system
Vascular and circulatory systems
Nervous system
Abdominal organs
Vesalius was a supporter of 'parallel
dissections' in which an animal cadaver and a
human cadaver are dissected simultaneously
in order to demonstrate the anatomical
differences and thus uncover Galenic errors.