{"id":8931,"date":"2020-05-15T10:21:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T10:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corpsite.staging.3d4medical.cloud\/uncategorized\/andreas-vesalius"},"modified":"2021-05-13T12:35:32","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T12:35:32","slug":"andreas-vesalius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/zh-hans\/blog\/andreas-vesalius","title":{"rendered":"Andreas Vesalius &#8211; The father of modern anatomy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We often hear of crazy medieval medical&nbsp;practices&nbsp;performed on patients. Procedures such as&nbsp;bloodletting&nbsp;?,&nbsp;putting dung on an open wound&nbsp;?, or&nbsp;boring holes into the skull to cure illness&nbsp;?.&nbsp;At that&nbsp;time,&nbsp;it was&nbsp;believed the body was comprised of four humors, astrology had to be confronted&nbsp;before&nbsp;deciding on&nbsp;a treatment plan, or&nbsp;small&nbsp;bobbles&nbsp;could act has magical&nbsp;healing&nbsp;charms.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.completeanatomy.cn\/website\/blog\/vesalius.jpg\" alt=\"Andreas Vesalius\">\n<figcaption>Andreas Vesalius<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Naturally,&nbsp;someone had to correct these falsities. This person was 16<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;century&nbsp;Flemish&nbsp;anatomist Andreas Vesalius. He is often considered the founder of modern human anatomy and was able to help teach correct&nbsp;anatomy through his&nbsp;dissections.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During&nbsp;the Middle Ages, due to most&nbsp;Christian&nbsp;beliefs, human dissection was illegal. Medical students dissected&nbsp;animals&nbsp;instead and&nbsp;would translate&nbsp;their findings&nbsp;into humans&nbsp;?.&nbsp;At least that was until Vesalius&nbsp;had the&nbsp;opportunity&nbsp;to dissect a human body.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through his&nbsp;dissections&nbsp;he discovered numerous features that before had gone&nbsp;unnoticed, such as<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Veins&nbsp;have valves within them<\/li><li>The heart is what pumps blood throughout the&nbsp;body&nbsp;?<\/li><li>The jaw is not comprised of two bones.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>With these discoveries&nbsp;Vesalius&nbsp;encouraged other doctors to&nbsp;investigate&nbsp;the ancient medical beliefs&nbsp;of the day. He was the first to perform a public dissection on a human corpse. He also had an artistic side and published&nbsp;the&nbsp;<em>De&nbsp;humani&nbsp;corporis&nbsp;fabrica&nbsp;libri&nbsp;septem<\/em>&nbsp;(\u201cThe Seven Books on the Structure of the Human Body\u201d)&nbsp;with detailed&nbsp;illustrations&nbsp;of his work&nbsp;?.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If it wasn\u2019t for Vesalius\u2019s&nbsp;revolutionary&nbsp;practices, who knows what we would still believe about the human body!&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We often hear of crazy medieval medical practices performed on patients. Procedures such as bloodletting ?, putting dung on an open wound ?, or boring holes into the skull to cure illness ?. At that time, it was believed the body was comprised of four humors, astrology had to be confronted before deciding on a treatment plan, or small bobbles could act has magical healing charms. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/zh-hans\/blog\/andreas-vesalius\">\u9605\u8bfb\u8be6\u60c5<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[316],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9475,"href":"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8931\/revisions\/9475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corpsite.nonprod.completeanatomy.cn\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}