Note 21 — X GREAT SURGEONS OF THE MEDIEVAL UNIVERSITIES

In the very first book containing some account of human anatomy, a German volume by Conradus Mengenberger, called "Puch der Natur," the date of printing of which is about 1478,—that is, less than ten years after the printing of the very first book, the "Biblia pauperum," which appeared in 1470,—there are, according to Haller in his "Bibliotheca Anatomica," a series of illustrations. This is the first illustrated medical work ever published.