Prelude to Fame

Three years before Vesalius at age 28 burst upon European intellectual life with the publication of the Fabrica, and changed anatomical science forever, he was invited by the students at the University of Bologna to offer a special series of liectures. In this privileged position, he conducted public dissections, in the course of which he began to publicly question the anatomical doctrines of Galen, nearly unchanged for more than a millenium.

An Eye Witness Source

Lecture notes (sometimes near-verbatim) by Balthasar Heseler, a diligent student, were not discovered until 1957. They now allow us to bring this academic milestone to life in a video presentation. The thirty-six minute program combines historical woodcuts from the works of Vesalius and others with live footage of a modern dissection performed at UCLA in 1990 in commemoration of the 450th anniversary of Vesalius' Bologna professorship. A brief teacher's manual is included.

Themes in Cubital, Cardiac and Cerebral Anatomy

This program is also available in three shorter versions, each of which highlights one of the three doctrines demonstrated in the long version:

1. necessity of anatomical expertise on cubital fossa for safety in bloodletting procedures.
2. great doubt shed on the supposed permeability of the cardiac septum (vital to the whole structure of traditional physiology).
3. increasingly firm denial of the existence of a rete mirabile in the human brain. They may be of use to teachers with a limited classroom time availaible.

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