“I could have done nothing more worthwhile than to give a new description of the whole human body, of which nobody understood the anatomy, while Galen, despite his extensive writings, has offered very little on the subject.”

— Andreas Vesalius

Letter on the China Root, quoted in O'Malley 1964, p. 222

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early anatomist 1514–1564

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