Medicine: A Challenge to Tom Parr

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^{* The lecture, delivered by Dr. Charles O'Malley, was titled
The Life and Times of Andreas Vesalius, the medieval anatomist
(1514-64) who was one of the foremost grave robbers of his day. In
1543, at the age of 28, he shocked the scientific world with his great
work, De Humani Carporis Fabrica, which detailed the construction of
the human body and scornfully exploded some superstitions of the age.}