Even Goethals, despite the timidity natural to a city librarian in a town like Brussels, in which clerical power is strong and relentless, feels obliged to confess that there was a certain admixture of religious hatred in the treatment of Vesalius.

See his Notice Biographique sur Andre Vesale.

For the resurrection bones, see Roth, as above, pp.

154, 155, and notes.

For Vesalius, see especially Portal, Hist.