Biomedical Ephemera, or: A Frog for Your Boils

Inevitabile Fatum - “Inescapable End”

These figures display the major bones of the human skull and cervical spine.

Though Andreas Vesalius was known as the first European physician to disregard the Galenic model of anatomy (based largely upon the bodies of other primates and not humans) and revolutionize our knowledge of the human form, Johann Dryander had already dissected and illustrated the human skull and brain twice, before Vesalius even came out with his first publication.

Vesalius performed most of his work in Padua, Italy, while Dryander lived and practiced in Marburg, Germany.

Anatomiae, hoc est, corporis humani dissectionis pars prior. Johann Dryander, 1537.