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  On The Fabric of The Human Body

  Introduction by Vivian Nutton

To the Divine Charles V, the Mightiest and Most Unvanquished Emperor: Andreas Vesalius’ PREFACE to his books On the Fabric of the Human Body

PRINTER’S NOTE TO THE READER [Vesalius's instructions to the printer]

  Book One -- The things that sustain and support the entire body, and what braces and attaches them all. [the bones and the ligaments that interconnect them]

  Book Two -- All the ligaments and muscles, instruments of voluntary and deliberate motion

  Book Three -- The series of veins and arteries throughout the body

  Book Four -- The nerves

  Book Five -- The organs of nutrition and generation

  Book Six -- The heart and organs serving the heart [Chiefly the heart and lungs]

  Book Seven -- The brain and organs of sense