A human’s lower jaw is one bone, not two
as Galen said,
and a human sternum has three parts, not like an ape with
its seven.
Vesalius accepted Galen’s theory of the
circulation of the blood,
although he admitted he could not find holes between the
heart’s ventricles.
He found that men and women had the same number
of ribs,
and published illustrations of partially dissected human
bodies in dramatic poses.
Bones
Ezekiel cried, dem bones
gonna walk around.
With a knick-knack paddywhack,
give the dog a bone.
Work, work, work,
work your fingers to the bone.
Sticks and stones
may break my bones.
Make no bones about it;
we’re only bags of bones.
Bones, bones, human bones
piled up in the catacombs.
Bones don’t lie;
there lie the bones.
Freaks
Hooray for freaks whose
hearts are on their right.
Maybe they might teach us
not to judge by sight.
Hooray for freaks who
accept us as we are.
To think outside the box
might not be so bizarre.
Hooray for people who
are not like you and me.
If we cut them open
it wouldn’t help us see.
Galen’s theory of the circulation of the blood included the
ideas that the great blood vessels originated in the liver, that
arteries carried the purest blood from the left ventricle of the
heart to the higher organs, and the veins carried blood from the
right ventricle to the lower organs. Andreas Vesalius’s
publication De humani corporis fabrica (“On the
structure of the human body”) was the beginning of modern
human anatomy. It was not until 1628 that William Harvey explained
the circulation of the blood.
Galen’s theory of the circulation of the blood included the ideas that the great blood vessels originated in the liver, that arteries carried the purest blood from the left ventricle of the heart to the higher organs, and the veins carried blood from the right ventricle to the lower organs. Andreas Vesalius’s publication De humani corporis fabrica (“On the structure of the human body”) was the beginning of modern human anatomy. It was not until 1628 that William Harvey explained the circulation of the blood.
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