Vesalius: The China Root Epistle: A New Translation and Critical Edition

Content: 1. Dedicatory preface Franciscus Vesalius
 2. Author\'s greeting to Joachim Roelants
 3. Occasion for writing about the China root
 4. With what success many have used the China
 5. Description of the China root
 6. Method of preparing the China decoction
 7. Quantity of the first China decoction to be delivered, and the time to give it
 8. How a sweat should be induced
 9. What drink is useful
 10. Sleep and wakefulness
 11. Movement and rest
 12. Concern about bodily wastes
 13. What affects of the mind are applicable
 14. Sexual activity
 15. How long the first decoction should be used
 16. A method of taking and preparing a second decoction
 17. A way of administering sparta parilla
 18. Native and familiar drugs should be put to use rather than exotics
 19. Decoction of chamaedrys
 20. No small results can by expected from genuine rhapontic
 21. Hapless people who gratify themselves by publishing something
 22. Occasion for the letter of Sylvius in which it was declared that nothing written by Galen is completely in error
 23. Occasion for the opinion, here to be recorded, of the letter in which Vesalius replied to Sylvius
 24. Galen did not dissect humans, but teaches the study of animals instead of man
 25. A number of conjectures from the bones
 26. Conclusions drawn about the fat, muscles, and ligaments, whereby it is concluded that Galen did not describe the human fabric
 27. Several places taken from the series of veins and arteries in which it is inferred that Galen did not dissect humans
 28. Reasons taken from the nerves by which it is known that humans were not dissected by Galen
 29. Reasons selected from the contents of the peritoneum
 30. Some conjectures based upon the parts that are contained in the thorax
 31. Reasons taken from those contained in the skull
 32. Some places where Galen openly criticized the Ancients because they had dissected humans and not apes, as he did
 33. Not everything in his description of the parts was correctly reported and described by Galen
 34. A number of untrue descriptions in the bones
 35. Several inaccurate descriptions taken from the account of muscles and ligaments
 36. Some false descriptions gathered from the account of veins and arteries
 37. Accepted descriptions in the account of nerves which are not quite true
 38. Descriptions of the parts that are contained in the peritoneum, which are not entirely true
 39. Several untrue descriptions gathered from the parts contained in the thorax
 40. False descriptions among the parts that are surrounded by the skull
 41. Some places where it is known that Galen was not altogether sound in assigning the functions and uses of the parts
 42. In his account of the bones
 43. Several uses and functions not well assigned in Galen\'s account of the muscles and ligaments
 44. Places collected from the description of veins, arteries, and nerves where it is known that Galen consistently assigned incorrect uses and actions
 45. A description of some things that are contained in the peritoneum
 46. From the description of parts located in the thorax and skull
 47. Some invalid anatomical proofs of Galen are mentioned
 48. How useful the annotations of Vesalius have been in Galenic anatomy, and how little they are to be needed hereafter
 49. Method of administering the water of the China root.