Jousting was a popular pastime for royalty in the Renaissance era. Injuries were common, and the eye was particularly at risk from the splinters of the wooden lance. On June 30, 1559, Henry II of France participated in a jousting tournament to celebrate two royal weddings. In the third match, Gabriel de Montgomery struck Henry on the right shoulder and the lance splintered, sending wooden shard...

THE LINEAR ARRANGEMENT OF genes on our chromosomes is part of our microanatomy. When we speak of mapping genes on chromosomes, we use a cartographic metaphor. An equally appropriate anatomic metaphor is the anatomy of the human genome. Clinical cytogenetics (starting in the late 1950s), mapping genes on chromosomes (beginning for autosomes in the late 1960s), and comprehensive DNA sequencing of...

The accessory bones of the foot have fascinated anatomists for five centuries. Andreas Vesalius in I 568 (published in I 725) was the first to draw attention to an accessory ossicle situated at the base of the fifth metatarsal bone, and much has been written subsequently about two distinct groups of accessory bones. In the first are those which are contained within the fibres of tendons and are...

For many years art, anatomy and medicine have shared a close relationship, as demonstrated by Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical drawings and Andreas Vesalius' groundbreaking illustrated anatomical textbook from the 16th century. However, in the modern day, can art truly play an important role in medical education? Studies have suggested that art can be utilized to teach observational skills in med...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the frequency of unilateral or bilateral foramen of Vesalius (FV), number of FV present on one side, and presence of a septum on FV. METHODS We bilaterally examined, 347 sphenoid bones of collections of the Department of Anatomy, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul and Dokuz Eylul Faculty of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey in 2007. RESULTS Of the 347...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com J Anesth Crit Care Open Access 2016, 4(4): 00152 an important public health spending. In the United States it is estimated that 20 million people have gallstones. An estimated 5.5 million of them have gallstones in the United Unido [1]. The first description of bile duct stones in humans was made by Alexander of Tralles (525-605 AD). However, it is ...

Galen's physiological system was "completely lacking any scientific basis", and was in fact a "highly fanciful concept of bodily function". For Persaud, "Galen's death heralded a long era with a predictable outcome. Medicine, and the study of human anatomy in particular, languished in passive moribundity only to reach a climactic end in 1543 with the publication of De corporis humanifabrica. " ...

NIVERSITIES are hostile to Genius," said ' Emerson. He might have cited the University SI of Paris and Vesalius as a case in point. For here was a genius who had articled with destiny to dedicate himself, his gifts, his splendid impatience to Reform; and here a University so encrusted and anklyosed with Conservatism that there was nothing quite like it in Europe at the time. What was Vesalius d...

Galen (129-c. 216 AD) was a key figure in the early development of Western physiology. His teachings incorporated much of the ancient Greek traditions including the work of Hippocrates and Aristotle. Galen himself was a well-educated Greco-Roman physician and physiologist who at one time was a physician to the gladiators in Pergamon. Later he moved to Rome, where he was associated with the Roma...

M aking accurate visual representations of the structure of the human brain has been one of the most challenging tasks of anatomical research for the past 500 years. Already, the illustrations of the brain in the De Humani Corporis Fabrica, by Andreas Vesalius, and Thomas Willis’ Cerebri Anatome display an often astonishing quality (Figures 1, 2, and 3). In the 19th and early 20th centuries, th...