University of Pennsylvania surgical amphitheater, 152
University of Vienna, 166
upper motor neuron (UMN), 314
urinary incontinence surgery, 303, 304
urology, 302
“Use of the Microscope in Medicine” (Lister), 108
V
van Helmont, Jan, 147, 149
Venable, Charles, 193–94
venereal diseases
germ theorists’s interest in, 109
Hunter injecting himself with gonorrhea and syphilis, 76–77
syphilis, 126–27
syphilitic lesion in the frontal lobe affects speech, 311
Venice, 25–26
ventricular-peritoneal (VP) shunt, 300
Verne, Jules, 187, 193
Vesalius, Andreas
biographical info, 28–29
De fabrica, xviii, 25, 33–38
Instutiones Anatomicae (revised) published, 32–33
Louvain cadaver found and restored, 31–32
medical training, 31–32
Tabulae Anatomicae published, 32
teaching dissection skills, 33
writing and publishing De fabrica, 33–37
Vienna, Austria, Rokitansky’s Pathological Institute, 87
Vienna General Hospital (AKH), 101–2, 106, 167
Vigo, Giovanni da, 30
Virchow, Rudolf, 93, 94–95, 96–97
Virchows Archiv (journal), 95
Vitallium, 192, 193, 268
vivisection, xviii, 83
VP (ventricular-peritoneal) shunt, 300
W
Waksman, Selman, 137, 138
Wallace, George, 198
war and scientific advances, 266
Warren, John Collins, 151, 154–56
Watanabe, Masaki, 278