Several such preparations are now at the College of Physicians in London, brought from Padua by Harvey.

The plates of the muscles are remarkably good, more correct, though not better perhaps, on the whole, than some of Leonardo's.
(22) The next, in 1559, is recorded by Plater in his autobiography, who gave a public dissection during three days in the Church of St.Elizabeth.
Vesalius had no idea of a general circulation.

Though he had escaped from the domination of the great Pergamenian in anatomy, he was still his follower in physiology.

The two figures annexed, taken from one of the two existing copies of the "Tabulae Anatomica," are unique in anatomical illustration, and are of special value as illustrating the notion of the vascular system that prevailed until Harvey's day.

I have already called your attention to Galen's view of the two separate systems, one containing the coarse, venous blood for the general nutrition of the body, the other the arterial, full of a thinner, warmer blood with which were distributed the vital spirits and the vital heat.