flourishing anatomical and physiological DrograrmmeS created a new contidence amOng
investigators that everything that needed to be known could essentially be discovered by
s6 probing more deeply and ever more minutely into the flesh, its systems, tissues, cels, its
DNA.
③ This has proved an infinitely productiVe Inquiry, generating first knowledge and
then power, including on some occasionS the Dower tO Conquer disease. The idea of
probing into bodies, living and dead (and especially Zzzzg72 bodies) with a view to
55 improving mmedicine 1S more Of leSS distinctive to the European medical tradition. For
reasons technical. cultural religious and personal it Was not done in China or India,
Mesopotamia or pharaonic Egypt. *Dissection and dissection-related exDerimnentation WeTe
performed only on animals in classical Greece, and rarely. A medicine that seriously and
