History of Surgery: An Introduction to Andreas Vesalius (From the Illustrated History of Surgery)

Jaber Ansari, M

History of Surgery: An Introduction to Andreas Vesalius (From the Illustrated History of Surgery)

Author

M Jaber Ansari

General and Pediatric Surgery Specialist, Mehrad Hospital

Abstract

Few individuals have had such a significant impact on the history of surgery as Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564). He was born on December 31 in Brussels, Belgium, into a German family of Wesleyan origin on the Rhine. Four generations of his ancestors, who were physicians and pharmacists, had extensive connections with the House of Burgundy and the court of the Holy Roman Empire, especially that of Charles V (1500-1558).

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