I strive that in public dissection the students do as much as possible so that if even the least trained of them must dissect a cadaver before a group of spectators, he will be able to perform it accurately with his own hands; and by comparing their studies one with another they will properly understand this part of medicine.


De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem (1543), 547. Quoted and trans. in C. D. O'Malley, Andreas Vesalius of Brussels (1964)

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I strive that in public dissection the students do as much as possible so that if even the least trained of them must dissect a cadaver before a...

I strive that in public dissection the students do as much as possible so that if even the least trained of them must dissect a cadaver before a...

I strive that in public dissection the students do as much as possible so that if even the least trained of them must dissect a cadaver before a...

I strive that in public dissection the students do as much as possible so that if even the least trained of them must dissect a cadaver before a...