Weeks #7-8

Alexandria Egypt, ca. 300 BC

18th-19th century British medical schools 

Anatomy Act of 1836

King Ptolemy I, ~300 BC (pg 39)

Herophilus, the father of anatomy (pg 40)

William Harvey (pg 42)

Thomas Sewel, Colonel Physician (pg 43)

Sir Astley Cooper (pg 45)

Robert Knox (pg 48)

Galen (pg 53)

Hippocrates (pg 53)

Andreas Vesalius (pg 54)

Hemisection (pg 37)

Bisected (pg 37)

Anhydrous Lacrimal Gland (pg 38)

Incinerated (pg 39)

Vivisect (pg 40)

Persist (pg 40)

Cadaver (pg 40)

Corporal (pg 40)

Entrails (pg 40)

Postmortem (pg 41)

Pilfering (pg 43)

Misappropriation (pg 43)

Necrophilia (pg 43)

Evinced (pg 46)

Compunction (pg 46)

“Metastasized into sort of macabre eccentricity” (pg 46)

Intaglio  (pg 46)

Disinterment (pg 46)

Flummoxed (pg 47)

Abattoir (pg 47)

Menagerie (pg 48)

Venerated (pg 54)

Prosection (pg 54)

Prosector (pg 54)

Procured (pg 54)