Andreas Vesalius: Revolutionizing the Study of Human Anatomy
In 1514, Andreas Vesalius was born in the city of Brussels. Her husband was royal herbalist to Emperor Charles V, and she had a number of herbalists among her ancestors (she had German blood in her veins). In his youth, he must have been a special headache for his own family, because from the beginning he was fond of dissecting small animals, rats, birds, etc. He will become a doctor, as preordained by the proper tradition in the family and his personal interest. Vesalius was educated, accordingly, at the University of Louve and the Medical School of the University of Paris. Vesalius’ student life ended at the University of Padua and, after finishing his studies, he was appointed there as professor of surgery and anatomy in the medical faculty. He remained there till 1543 and was engaged in studies, and in the fulfillment of the great work of his life. But as soon as the book was published, he lost his job – a storm arose and various kinds of compulsions arose. Well, he was elected royal physician to Charles V of Spain. After reaching here, he did not do any further research on anatomy. After Charles, he continued to be the royal physician in the same manner at Philips II’s.
Andreas Vesalius had had some idea of the errors in the study-teaching method of medicine when he himself was a student in Paris. Anatomy is a major part of medical science and medical-related ‘correct education’ without making the body parts visible. How can the di also go? The condition of some people starts getting worse on seeing the dead body, but how can the introduction of scientists in relation to the human body increase in any way? How can the proper treatment of the disease be started in any other way? Even today there are many people, there are many religions, who hate to stab a human body. Seeing the incisions, people start vomiting. In those days, when Vesalius was studying anatomy as a student, the professor would come and sit in the chair in front of him, reciting some of Galen’s treatise with devotion and leaving. Galen died in 200 AD and whatever is written about the human body in his writings It was written in, that he (Barberry) was mostly dependent on the chiraphadi of monkeys. On the other side, the professor would go on reading his worn-out notes, and on the other hand, an assistant would go on to complete the ritual of walking quickly showing the disfigured limbs accordingly. Somewhere it would have come to such an extent that there could be no correspondence between Galen’s description and the model in front of him. At such places, the professor would have quickly gone ahead by saying that there must have been some changes in the human body since Galen. No one had the courage to speak against Galen: Galen was self-evident, and this, when Galen himself had no less contradictions from place to place.
Vesalium was dissatisfied with this system of medical education. He remembered how in his childhood he had been fond of dissecting birds and rats himself; He decided that he would increase his knowledge in relation to humans in the same way. Now the difficulty was that from where to get the surplus bodies? The only way left was to blow up the dead (even today in ‘horror’ films, when this horror is presented on the screen, many of the viewers turn away) this was the only way left. The result of which was that some unauthorized people also went and started vandalizing the graves.
Be that as it may, Vesalius decided that he would never believe blindly on anyone else’s writings, on the basis of what would open in front of his own hands, he would take the next step-make his theory. He also had to give lectures on anatomy every day; The attendance in these lectures has now started increasing. He made it a rule for the students that, in his class, they should make it a habit to tear apart the body – not to idolize around the Can’t take it. There can be only one test of truth – direct vision.
Vesalius condemned the doctors of his day: “Today, when all the rest have given up that distasteful part of their responsibility (but at the same time, have not turned their backs on the importance of the foot and the position), then may these my fellow doctors of the old days How can we compete with those doctors, with those Chyawans?…” What should be the methods and methods of dosage – this question is left to the nerves today. The work of mixing medicines is done by the grocer, and the incision Ka’s barber. Then what’s left for the doctor?” Vesalius Enlightened the doctors to take the responsibility of the patient’s health in their hands and understand some of their responsibility.
The importance of Vesalius’s treatise ‘Fabrica’ is largely due to its painter Jan Stefan-von Kalkar. Von Kalkar was a pupil of the famous artist Titian. To this day the subtlety and naturalness of his drawings could not be beat; And, they have become a permanent property of anatomy.
Andreas Vesalius died in 1564 AD. Because he was also human – the criticism of his method and his conclusions was still not coming to an end. He was also a human – how long would he tolerate?
The importance of Vesalius in anatomy is only this, that he was the ‘primordial man’ who brought medical science back to the direct surgical opening of the body. This establishment of Vesalius, this fund, has today been accepted as authentic everywhere in the field of medicine.
“I know that only my youth, my age, will stand in my way and no one will listen to me; And also that – when those people in anatomy who do not have their own eyes, start attacking me, not a single finger will be raised anywhere to protect me. These are the words in which Andreas Vesalius, at the tender age of twenty-eight, prayed to Emperor Charles V to grant him asylum. Vesalius went on to publish a collection (in seven parts) of his findings: ‘De humani corporis fabrica’ – (‘Something about the structure of the human body’).
Vesalius knew that he would be criticized and it would be bitter. He himself had decided to criticize the ongoing practice of doctors and the prevalent education system and had decided to point fingers at Galen’s own Veda-Vakya. Vesalius found himself at the turning point at which anatomy, which had been going on for thirteen centuries, had reached theoretically and experimentally. It is not surprising, therefore, that the young lad naturally felt some hesitation as to whether he should dare to publish anything without the custody of the State.