... Musculorum humani corporis picturata dissectio (Ferrara 1541?) : Facsimile edition / annotated by Harvey Cushing & Edward C. Streeter.

  • Giambattista Canano
Date:
1925
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Credit: ... Musculorum humani corporis picturata dissectio (Ferrara 1541?) : Facsimile edition / annotated by Harvey Cushing & Edward C. Streeter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It appears tliat tlie Paduan-trained Antonio, on his return to Eerrara, stabbed his kindred awake and bronght in the revival of anatomical stu- dies, now obsolescent. Preyions to 1535 the Studium of Perrara liad set a deplorable example in respect to anato¬ mical teaching, — no worse, however, than con- ditions obtaining in the Paris schools up to that date. The rare school — dissections, instituted at Perrara at the close of the fifteenth century, were ripping affairs, little calculated to profit anyone save the Lector, Ostensor and assistant barbers. The operators had a basis for drawing pay, the boys had a holiday — and that was ali. It is true that Leonicenus (1428-1524) twice mentions ana- tomies, as substantiating certain corrections he had made in the texts of Pliny and Oelsus, but this rather indicates a dearth of dissections, pau- city rather than plenitude. ]N either Manardus nor Brasavola paid heed to the matter, although the latter ayows he opened two stags in search of a heart - bone to add to his Museum. (1) see P. Jovius, Elogia. XLIX : « elaborat is profitendo si¬ mul secando damnatorum cadavera anat. volumen ex pla¬ citis Galeni ». (1) « ego duo corda cervi aperui ». Brasavola, Exam. omn. simp. med. Lugd. Frellon, 1537, p. 416. 17 2