Vesalius: The China Root Epistle

This book provides the first annotated English translation from the original Latin of Andreas Vesalius'' China Root Epistle. Ostensibly his appraisal of a fashionable herbal remedy, the China Root Epistle concentrates on Vesalius'' skeptical appraisal of traditional Galenic anatomy, which was based on animal rather than human dissections. Along with reflections about his life as a young anatomist,...