And. Vesalius

ANDREAS
VESALIUS
THE
Reformer of Anatomy

BY
JAMES MOORES BALL, M. D.

SAINT LOUIS
MEDICAL SCIENCE PRESS
MDCCCCX

Copyrighted, 1910
By James Moores Ball
All rights reserved

TO THE MEMORY
OF THOSE ILLUSTRIOUS MEN
WHO
OFTEN UNDER ADVERSE CIRCUMSTANCES
AND
SOMETIMES IN DANGER OF DEATH
SUCCEEDED IN UNRAVELLING THE MYSTERIES
OF THE STRUCTURE OF THE HUMAN BODY,
TO THE FATHERS OF ANATOMY
AND
TO THE ARTIST-ANATOMISTS
THIS BOOK
IS DEDICATED

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