{"id":3454,"date":"2014-11-18T22:56:50","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T22:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/?p=5586"},"modified":"2014-11-18T22:56:50","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T22:56:50","slug":"vesalius-turns-the-page-on-ancient-medicine-lecture-hardin-library-thursday-november-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2014\/11\/18\/vesalius-turns-the-page-on-ancient-medicine-lecture-hardin-library-thursday-november-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Vesalius Turns the Page on Ancient Medicine Lecture @Hardin Library Thursday, November 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/jmrbr\/id\/3121\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5588\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2014\/11\/Vesalius_Portrait_pg_xii_-_c-220x300.png\" alt=\"portrait of Vesalius\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society, The Classics Department, and the Center for the Book invite you to a lecture by Daniel Garrison, Emeritus Professor, Department of Classics, Northwestern University on &#8220;Vesalius Turns the Page on Ancient Medicine.&#8221; \u00a0The lecture is free and open to the public. \u00a0The lecture will be held on Thursday, \u00a0November 20 from 5:30pm-6:30pm at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/getting\/\" >The Hardin Library for the Health Sciences<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This talk concentrates on the procedural contributions Vesalius made in his 1543 <em>De humani corporis fabrica<\/em>. Vesalius began his medical studies at the University of Paris, which was still a conservative institution that relied heavily on readings from Galen and later Medieval summaries and required little or no dissection, even of animals. Vesalius introduced a new regimen at the University of Padua that called for \u00a0dissection by the students \u00a0and visual testing of anatomy rather than dependence upon books.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5587\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5587 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2014\/11\/vesalius-from-De-humani-corporis-fabrica-190x300.jpg\" alt=\"from De humani corporis fabrica\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skeleton from De Humani Corporis Fabrica<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>De humani corporis fabrica <\/em>is one of the most important anatomy books ever published, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/rbr\/\" >John Martin Rare Book Room<\/a> owns a first edition. \u00a0You may view this book or others from our collection by visiting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/rbr\/\" >John Martin Rare Book Room<\/a>. \u00a0Some images are also available in the <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/jmrbr\/id\/3121\" >Iowa Digital Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society, The Classics Department, and the Center for the Book invite you to a lecture by Daniel Garrison, Emeritus Professor, Department of Classics, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3454"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3464,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454\/revisions\/3464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}