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Title: Studies in the history and method of science
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Singer, Charles Joseph, 1876-1960
Subjects: Medicine Science
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Fig. 2. Title-page of Mellerstadts edition of theAnatomy of Mondino, Leipzig, 1493. The scene is laidin the open air.^ THE ANOTHOMIA OF HIERONYMO MANFREDI 83 Surgery, to whom the teaching of anatomy was entrusted,stands by with a pointer to indicate the different organs.
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Fig. 3. A DISSECTION SCENEFrom the Venice 1495 edition of Ketham (compare_Plate xxvn). Sometimes the professor changes places with the reader at thedesk. In some later MSS. the teacher is figured as himselfhandling the body and demonstrating to his pupil (Plate xxx a^ 1 Plate xxx o, from a late fifteenth-century Provencal translation of theGrande Chirurgie of Guy de Chauljac. Vatican Library, MS. hispanice 4804, folio G2 84 A STUDY IN EARLY RENAISSANCE ANATOMY and h ^), but there is evidence that the miniatures portraying thisare the work of artists unfamiliar with dissection and with theteaching of anatomy. The study of anatomy had to contend with two great difficulties,want of subjects for dissection, and faith in the written woid. Thus, at Bologna, where it was arranged that every medicalstudent of over two years standing should attend an Anatomy oncea year, no less than twenty students were admitted to see theanatomy of each man, and thirty to the anatomy of each woman.^This was a

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