This odd thing pumps in my chest right now , I think. I turn my hand over, and the heart settles into my palm perfectly, just as Karl said. Vesalius' De humani corporis fabrica , the source of the illustrations on this page, is one of the most beautiful of all medical texts and the foundation of modern anatomy. Today, the book is preserved in a climate-controlled vault in the Special Collections area of Emory's Woodruff Library. Art English takes the podium and looks apologetic.
Students look at each other.
And when I interviewed this substitute, it appeared to me that he would be up to the task. He is dressed in a seventeenth-century costume, with a large, floppy white collar and a multicolored doublet. You'd think Emory wouldn't assign someone of my stature chores in freshman Anatomy, but perhaps it's because I haven't published anything since the seventeenth century. I'm here to tell you about the most important discovery of all time, my discovery of the circulation of blood in the body. First slide, please.