Medical jurisprudence

[1] As modern medicine is a legal creation, regulated by the state, and medicolegal cases involving death, rape, paternity, etc.

Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564), imperial physician to the court of Emperor Charles V, revolutionized the practice of medicine by providing detailed descriptions of the anatomy of the human body, which were based on his dissections of cadavers and autopsies.

In 1537, aged just 22, Vesalius performed public dissections to show how the human body worked, and became professor of medicine at Padua University.

[6] His work "De Humani Corporis Fabrica" was groundbreaking in the history of medical publishing and is considered to be a major step in the development of scientific medicine.

It was imposed on the university by the administration of Charles James Fox, and in particular Henry Erskine working with Andrew Duncan, the elder.