Which person was a Flemish doctor who advanced medical research by dissecting human bodies?
History · Middle School · Mon Jan 18 2021
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The person you are referring to is Andreas Vesalius. He was a Flemish anatomist, physician, and author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy, "De Humani Corporis Fabrica" (On the Fabric of the Human Body), which was published in 1543. Vesalius is often referred to as the founder of modern human anatomy. He was born in Brussels, which was then part of the Habsburg Netherlands and is now in Belgium, and his work represented a major advance in medical research because it was based on direct observation and dissection of the human body. This was in contrast to relying strictly on the ancient texts of Galen and others, whose work was sometimes inaccurate because they were often based on animal rather than human anatomy.