Founders and Early Benefactors of the Medical Historical Library

De humani corporis fabrica libri septem.
[On the Fabric of the Human Body]

This copy of the first edition of Vesalius’s celebrated masterpiece was given to Harvey Cushing by William Osler in 1903.

Vesalius, Andreas, 1514-1564

Anatomy

Basel: Ioannis Oporini

1543

Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

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