Great anatomist and professor of medicine at the University of Bologna born in that city, in the Emilia-Romagna Region, who wrote the first textbook on anatomy, Anathomia Mundini or Anatomy of all internal human body parts (1316), for teaching purposes university.
He grew up and studied in his hometown starting in medicine (1290) at the Bologna School of Medicine, and later also graduating from the School of Philosophy. He became a professor of anatomy and performed dissections on cadavers in his classes, in view of his students, with pedagogical and research purposes following Galen's anatomical precepts. He retired (1324) and died in his native land two years later.
Until the appearance of De humani Corporis factory (1543), by Andreas Vesálio, his Anathomia Mundini was one of the textbooks that most used and most influenced the teaching of university anatomy, recognized as the first modern work of the matter. It was in Italy where the first dissections in western medical education began and in some in other countries like Spain and Portugal, medical education has not evolved because the church has banned this resource didactic.
Source: http://www.dec.ufcg.edu.br/biografias/
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