f a policy.
The Papal Medical School the greatest in the world.
The Papal Physicians leaders in science.
The Church did for science as much as for art and literature.
History a conspiracy against the truth. (Cambridge Modern History.)

THE SUPPOSED PAPAL PROHIBITION OF DISSECTION. 28

A new Catholic medical school and dissection.
Supposed Papal prohibitions of anatomy and of chemistry.
The bull of Pope Boniface VIII., De Sepulturis.
Reason for the ball.
Supposed misinterpretation.
Misuse of word infallibility.
Some history of dissection.
Date of bull important in history.
Mondino's work.
Body-snatching.
Dissections elsewhere.
How Mondino prepared his bodies for dissection.
Guy de Chauliac at Bologna sees many dissections.
Mondino's assistants, Otto and Alessandra.
Papal permissions to dissect.
The Church granting anatomical privileges
where civil authorities refused.
How the tradition of this Papal prohibition originated.
M. Daunou as an authority.
Reply of Pope Benedict XIV. as to bull.
This subject a type of certain kinds of history

THE STORY OF ANATOMY DOWN TO THE RENAISSANCE. 61

Presumed failure of anatomy during the Middle Ages a myth.
Famous Law of Frederick II.
Dissections at Salerno.
Taddeo and anatomy.
Salicet and Lanfranc.
A famous medico-legal autopsy.
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Mondino in the history of anatomy.
Roth's story of dissection.
Guy de Chauliac's experience at Bologna.
The story of dissection during the fourteenth century without a break.
Continued in next century.
The work of Berengar of Carpi, Achillini, Matthew of Gradi.
Pathological anatomy born with Benivieni.
Pres. White's attitude to the evidence for dissection at this time.

THE GOLDEN AGE OF ANATOMY.--VESALIUS. 90

The golden age of anatomy as of letters and art in Italy.
Not origin, but wonderful development.
Great predecessors of Raphael and Michel Angelo,
as of Vesalius and Columbus.
Legitimate culmination of anatomical development.
The pre-Vesalians, Mondino, Bertrucci, Chauliac,
Achillini, Berengar and Benivieni.
The English students, Linacre, Caius, Phreas.
Italy the Mecca of anatomical investigators.
Harvey and Steno.
Graduate work in Italy then as in Germany now.
Vesalius's career.
The University of Louvain.
Vesalius in Paris, in Ita