Vesalius corrected Galen's ancient anatomy errors
Renaissance anatomist Andreas Vesalius transformed medicine by performing hands-on human dissections, exposing and correcting longstanding inaccuracies in the ancient anatomist Galen's work.
Centuries ago, medical students learned anatomy from ancient texts by Galen, who based his work on animal dissections. This led to glaring errors, like a five-lobed human liver. Renaissance anatomist Andreas Vesalius revolutionized medicine by dissecting human cadavers himself, directly observing the body.
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