On the left side of the image is the illustrated woodcut of the first muscle plate from Andreas Vesalius's De corporis humani fabrica libri septem. It is a full-length frontal view of a flayed corpse with its head tilted back to the left displaying the muscles of the front of the body. On the right side are the words in green writing Historical Anatomies on the Web. The illustrated woodcut of the first muscle plate from Andreas Vesalius's De corporis humani fabrica libri septem. It is a full-length frontal view of a flayed corpse with its head tilted back to the left displaying the muscles of the front of the body Historical Anatomies on the Web Introduction Browse Titles Titles to be added History of Medicine Division National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health