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all control of this great standard of ancient medicine
and anatomy, and became the advocate for actual
dissection of the human body, to which he constantly
referred in all his disputations.
The war which commenced at that time in France,
obliging Vesalius to leave Paris, he returned to his
own country, Louvain. The knowledge he had
acquired in anatomy induced him to profess it pub-
licly in that city; but, in order to extend his anato-
mical researches, in 1535, he followed the army of
the Emperor Charles the Fifth, against France.
His reputation increased. He was chosen professor
of anatomy in the university of Padua, by the re-
public of Venice, and there gave lectures on medi-
cine, particularly anatomy, for seven years.
In 1539, Vesalius published his anatomical plates,
which attracted the admiration of the learned. In
this, and in his other works, all the errors of Galen
are exposed. A multitude of enemies sprung up
against this bold innovator of old established autho-
rity. All Europe resounded with invectives against
him : Eustachius at Rome, Driander at Marpurg,
and Sylvius at Paris, became his public enemies,
particularly the latter, who employed every species
of calumny to lessen him in the esteem of his patrons :
instead of Vesalius, he called him Vesanus^ or a
madman • and accused him of ignorance, arogance,
all control of this great standard of ancient medicine
and anatomy, and became the advocate for actual
dissection of the human body, to which he constantly
referred in all his disputations.
The war which commenced at that time in France,
obliging Vesalius to leave Paris, he returned to his
own country, Louvain. The knowledge he had
acquired in anatomy induced him to profess it pub-
licly in that city; but, in order to extend his anato-
mical researches, in 1535, he followed the army of
the Emperor Charles the Fifth, against France.
His reputation increased. He was chosen professor
of anatomy in the university of Padua, by the re-
public of Venice, and there gave lectures on medi-
cine, particularly anatomy, for seven years.
In 1539, Vesalius published his anatomical plates,
which attracted the admiration of the learned. In
this, and in his other works, all the errors of Galen
are exposed. A multitude of enemies sprung up
against this bold innovator of old established autho-
rity. All Europe resounded with invectives against
him : Eustachius at Rome, Driander at Marpurg,
and Sylvius at Paris, became his public enemies,
particularly the latter, who employed every species
of calumny to lessen him in the esteem of his patrons :
instead of Vesalius, he called him Vesanus^ or a
madman • and accused him of ignorance, arogance,