Editing Andreas Vesalius (section)

=== Other achievements ===
* Vesalius disproved Galen's assertion that men have more teeth than women.<ref name=NPO>{{cite web|title=Vesalius was belangrijker dan Copernicus|url=http://nos.nl/artikel/2011283-vesalius-was-belangrijker-dan-copernicus.html|author=Lambert Teuwissen|publisher=[[Nederlandse Publieke Omroep (organization)|Nederlandse Publieke Omroep]]|language=nl|date=31 December 2014|access-date=5 February 2015}}</ref>
* Vesalius introduced the notion of induction of the extraction of [[empyema]] through surgical means.
* Due to his study of the human skull and the variations in its features he is said to have been responsible for the launch of the study of [[physical anthropology]].
* Vesalius always encouraged his students to check their findings, and even his own findings, so that they could better understand the structure of the human body.
* In addition to his continual efforts to study anatomy he also worked on medicinal remedies and came to such conclusions as treating [[syphilis]] with [[Smilax glabra|chinaroot]].
* Vesalius claimed that medicine had three aspects: drugs, diet, and 'the use of hands'—mainly suggesting surgery and the knowledge of anatomy and physiology gained through dissection.
* Vesalius was a supporter of 'parallel dissections' in which an animal cadaver and a human cadaver are dissected simultaneously in order to demonstrate the anatomical differences and thus correct Galenic errors.