Philadelphia’s College of Physicians is home to tens of thousands of books on medicine spanning centuries of health and science. This week, the group will bring out one of its most prized volumes, a ...

Illustration from Vesalius’s annotated ‘De humani corporis fabrica’ (1555) (via Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library) When it was published in 1543, Andreas Vesalius’s De humani corporis fabrica changed ...

Five centuries ago, a small Flemish man changed medicine forever. Andreas Vesalius was born in Brussels in 1514. He was thought to have some form of dwarfism, but in his professorship in Italy at the ...

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“Raise your hand if you’ve ever been in a cadaver lab,” Riva Lehrer, artist and guest curator for Vesalius 500, asked the audience gathered in the New York Academy of Medicine’s Hosack Hall. Heidi ...

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“. . . It is known vaguely, if at all, as an old volume that contains some possibly distressing illustrations of skeletons and muscles.” Thus complains the Metropolitan Museum’s scholarly Curator of ...

This post is in partnership with Publisher’s Lunch. To get a free copy of their new collection Buzz Book 2014, click here. In 1559, the two surgeons Ambroise Paré and Andreas Vesalius discussed ...

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