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- Title
Vesalius: Surgeon to Monarchs.
- Authors
NAKAYAMA, DON K.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the physician Andreas Vesalius. Topics include the chair of surgery at the University of Padua and has accepted a position as physician to the imperial household of Charles V the Holy Roman Emperor, the transition of treatment of gunshot wounds from boiling oil to more benign concoctions for which the latter became famous, and death changed the course of the history of Western Europe.
- Subjects
FRANCE; ANATOMY -- History; HISTORY of military medicine; HEAD injury complications; OCULAR injuries; HISTORICAL geography; HISTORY; MENINGITIS; SURGEONS; OPERATIVE surgery; HEAD injuries
- Publication
American Surgeon, 2020, Vol 86, Issue 3, p173
- ISSN
0003-1348
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/000313482008600323