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  On The Fabric of The Human Body

  Introduction by Vivian Nutton

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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

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Chapter 1 For Man to increase and live more prosperously, various instruments of nutrition were needed; what instruments were severally constructed for nutrition based upon food and drink

Chapter 2 On the Peritoneum

Chapter 3 On the Esophagus and the Stomach

Chapter 4 On the Omentum

Chapter 5 On the Intestines

Chapter 6 On the Mesentery

Chapter 7 On the Liver

Chapter 8 On the Bladder for Yellow Bile

Chapter 9 On the Spleen

Chapter 10 On the Kidneys

Chapter 11 On the Bladder, the receptacle for Urine, and the Vessels bringing it down from the kidneys to the bladder

Chapter 12 That Nature provided for the propagation of the species

Chapter 13 On the Organs in men serving generation

Chapter 14 On the Male Member and the structure of the penis

Chapter 15 On the Uterus and the other female organs serving generation

Chapter 16 On the Acetabula of the Uterus

Chapter 17 On the Involucra covering the fetus in the uterus

Chapter 18 On the Breasts

Chapter 19 Method of Dissecting all the organs described in this Book, and some general observations about the order of learning and teaching anatomy

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

  Book Seven -- The brain and organs of sense