SUMMARY: The spread of the idea that the human body should be learned from cadavers, especially under the leadership of Vesalius, and the strong support of this idea among surgeons and medical students of that period, led to the emergence of anatomy theatres, particularly in the rich centres of Western E...
SUMMARY: In the western surgical tradition there has been little acknowledgement of the ancient Vedic surgeon Sushruta who initiated many aspects of surgical practice. In his compendium the Sushruta Samhita, Sushruta systematised medicine in various areas. His meticulous knowledge in many branches of med...
RESUMEN: En Chile, los primeros antecedentes de la enseñanza de la anatomía aparecen en el siglo XVI, para proveer conocimientos a los profesionales sanitarios que ejercían en el territorio. En 1704, el Papa Sixto IV permite la práctica de la disección, encabezada por el alcalde de la ciudad y en do...
Resumen La infección cadavérica es una entidad nosológica poco conocida y que afectaba a los disectores en la práctica y enseñanza de la anatomía. La disección de cadáveres supone riesgos como la ocurrencia de heridas corto-punzantes causantes de infecciones e incluso la muerte asociadas a la man...
Human cadaveric dissection was introduced in Alexandria around 300 B.C. performed by Herophilos (335-255) for 30 or 40 years. Then it stopped, until Vesalius (1514-1564) began his work during the Renaissance in the Occident. He replaced the dominating theories of Galen (130-201), who had gained his knowl...
