Figure 1.

An academic dissection scene where the lector, seated in his high chair, reads the text, an ostensor demonstrates the anatomy and a barber‐surgeon (sector) carries out the dissection. From The Fasciculus Medicinae of Johannes de Ketham. Facsimile of the first, Venetian, edition of 1491. With introduction by Karl Sudhoff, translated and adapted by Charles Singer. R Lier & Co. Milan, 1924. Reproduced by kind permission of the President and Council of The Royal College of Surgeons of England.