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The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 81:1049 (1999)
© 1999 The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc.

Book Review

ANDREAS VESALIUS. ON THE FABRIC OF THE HUMAN BODY. A TRANSLATION OF DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA LIBRI SEPTEM. BOOK I. THE BONES AND CARTILAGES. William F. Richardson in collaboration with John B. Carman. San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1998. $225.00, 416 pp.

James T. Goodrich, M.D., Ph.D.

In 1543, there appeared, from Basel, Switzerland, a book written by a young man of twenty-eight whose name was Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564). His folio-tome revolutionized the study of anatomy and corrected many of the then-prevalent errors that had long ago been introduced by Galen of Pergamon (130–200 A.D.) and others. As a medical student, I became fascinated by this work and even wrote an essay on its contribution to the history of medicine; the essay was awarded the Sir William Osler Medal in the History of Medicine in 1978. How ironic that now, more than twenty years later, I am asked to review this magnum opus again. As I went through Vesalius's writings in the 1970s, I was struck by the difficulty of the Latin, written in what has been described as "flatulent pedantics." An even better description is that by Singer and Rabin2, who wrote: "It was found . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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