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The more fashionable doctors in Italy, began to delegate to slaves the manual attentions they deemed necessary for their patients ... that the art of medicine went to ruin.
Andreas Vesalius -
In our age nothing has been so degraded and then wholly restored as anatomy.
Andreas Vesalius
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I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations.
Andreas Vesalius -
Aristotle and many others say men have more teeth than women; it is no harder for anyone to test this than it is for me to say it is false, since no one is prevented from counting teeth.
Andreas Vesalius -
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 -
Passing over the other arts in silence, I shall speak briefly of that which concerns the health of mankind; indeed, of all the arts the genius of man has discovered it is by far the most beneficial and of prime necessity, although difficult and laborious.
Andreas Vesalius -
I strive that in public dissection the students do as much as possible.
Andreas Vesalius -
By not first explaining the bones, anatomists delay the inexperienced student and, because of the difficulty of the subject, deter him from a very worthy examination of the works of God.
Andreas Vesalius
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I have done my best to this single end, to aid as many as possible in a very recondite as well as laborious matter, and truly and completely to describe the structure of the human body which is formed not of ten or twelve parts - as it may seem to the spectator - but of some thousands of different parts.
Andreas Vesalius