Starting with Galen treating gladiators in ancient Rome, on to Andreas Vesalius and William Harvey pointing out his mistakes and then to the grave robbers Burke and Hare supplying murder victims for doctors to cut open and study. Explore the story of how knowledge of human anatomy developed (660 words)
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