Vesaliua, the father of anatomy

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Andreas Wei Saglia (15 14-1564) was born in Brussels and was a famous doctor and anatomist in the Renaissance. He published the book Human Body Structure in 1543, which is one of the authoritative works of human creationism. Vesaliua himself is regarded as one of the founders of modern human anatomy.

Life events

I. Schooling experience

Vesaliua was born in Vesaliua during the Renaissance. His great-grandfather has a bachelor's degree in medicine. His grandfather is a royal doctor and his father is a pharmacist. He entered the University of Paris to study medicine in 1533, and studied the medical theory of ancient Roman physician Galen under the guidance of Jacques Dubois and Jean Fenel. From then on, he became interested in anatomy and often studied bones in El Nino cemetery. 1536, Vesaliua entered the university of Padua, and received his doctorate in 1537.

Two. An autopsy of a stolen body.

When studying in Belgium, Vesaliua needed a large number of corpses to dissect the human body structure. At that time, it was illegal to dissect a human body in Belgium. Vesaliua often steals bodies from the execution ground in the middle of the night, and then goes back for autopsy. By dissecting a large number of families, Vesaliua had a profound understanding of human body structure.

Later, the story of stealing the body was accidentally spread. He left Belgium and went to Paris and Padua to continue his studies. 1539, a judge in Padua was interested in Vesaliua's work and allowed him to dissect the bodies of executed criminals. Soon, he got a lot of detailed and correct anatomical details. Many paintings are painted by specially hired painters, which are much more exquisite than previous works.

Three. Anatomical research

After graduating from doctor's degree, he taught anatomy in Padua. At that time, the medical community generally recognized Galen's medical theory, and no one tried to verify Galen's theory through experiments. Vesaliua's method is different. He demonstrated the operation with anatomical tools himself, so he found many mistakes in Galen's theory. The research results of Galen's theory are all derived from animal anatomy, which Galen and others described in their works.

There are mistakes in judging the function and structure of human organs. Vesaliua made many revisions to Galen's articles and began to write his own works. From 65438 to 0543, Vesaliua presided over an open anatomy, made it into a skeletal system and donated it to university of basel. This specimen is the oldest in the world and is currently on display at the Anatomy Museum in university of basel.

4. The masterpiece came out

1543, Vesaliua invited Oberlinus to help him print a seven-volume book, The Structure of the Human Body, and invited Titian's disciple Jean Van calka as an illustration. This book emphasizes what came to be called human anatomy: the internal function of the human body is regarded as a three-dimensional material structure filled with various organs. In sharp contrast to the past anatomical models, those models in the past all have strong Galen or Aristotle colors and astrological elements.

This masterpiece describes human bones, organs and other structures in detail and clearly. In this book, Vesaliua was also the first person to describe artificial respiration. Vesaliua's works are considered to have been handed down from ancient times, because their printing is very detailed and meticulous.

Verb (abbreviation for verb) Death of the Royal Doctor

After the publication of Human Body Structure, Vesaliua was invited to become a physician of Spanish King Charles V, and later he was invited by Cosimo I, the Grand Duke of Tuscany, to go to Pisa to go to university. During the period of 12, Vesaliua traveled around with the imperial court, treated the wounded in the battlefield or arena, performed surgery and dissection, and answered personal medical questions. During this period, Vesaliua also wrote some medical papers, but it attracted criticism, jealousy and slander from many doctors.

1564 was sentenced to death for being framed by others, and was later sentenced to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Rumor has it that the ship crashed on the way back to Spain, and 50-year-old Vesaliua was killed. There are also rumors that after Vesaliua returned to China, he was down and out due to debt, and later died unfortunately.

Personality achievement

Vesaliua corrected many theoretical fallacies handed down, especially Galen's theory. Galen's anatomical theory is based on animal anatomy, but it is used to guide the practice of human anatomy. Vesaliua wrote a highly accurate and complicated anatomical work, The Theory of Human Structure. Since then, anatomists no longer believe in authority, but only their own observations. Vesaliua discovered important differences and connections among species, which laid the foundation for the development of comparative anatomy.