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Muscleman, in a landscape, seen from the front. Photolithograph, 1940, after a woodcut, 1543. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
The jaw bones have been separated and drawn back in this to reveal the underlying muscles and the tongue. The scalenus anterior muscle is shown extending beyond the first rib to demonstrate Galen's dependence on canine anatomy. In this and in other plates Vesalius incorporated animal anatomy in order to comment upon Galenic errors, although this sometimes had the opposite effect of drawing criticism of their perpetuation
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