have used the three skeletons and seven myologic figures taken from the _Fabrica_ and the _Epitome_. In the preface of his book, de Piles says that he does not think it is possible to produce better figures than those found in the works of Vesalius. That he was not alone in this opinion is shown by the fact that many other artists, who have composed treatises on art-anatomy, have drawn freely from the Vesalian storehouse. An Italian, Giacomo Moro, in his anatomy for the use of artists, (_Anatomia ridotta ad uso de’ pittori e scultore._ Venice 1679), reproduced nineteen of Vesalius’s figures in copperplate. [Illustration: NINTH VESALIAN PLATE, OF THE MUSCLES (From the “Fabrica”, 1543. Reduced one-half)] The popularity of Vesalius’s anatomical figures among painters was due, not only to the intrinsic worth of these illustrations, but also to the erroneous belief that the original drawings were the work of Titian. This opinion found expression on the title-pages of several works on art-anatomy. For example, in 1706, Moschenbauer, of Augsburg, issued a folio volume illustrated with Vesalian figures cut in wood, with this title:—_Andreae Vesalii, Bruxellensis, des ersten besten Anatomici, Zergliederung des menschlichen Körpers auf Mahlerey, and Bildhauer-Kunst gerichtet, die Figuren von Titian gezeichnet_. An anonymous book, _Notomia di Titanio_, appeared in Italy about the year 1670. The Vesalian figures of the skeleton were also issued in single sheets with moralistic verses appended. Moehsen cites one of these with the inscription printed in French: “De cet objet affreux tu parois rebutté, Est c’est ce que dans peu cependant tu dois étre: Apprens, mortel, a te connoître Ce miroir est le seul, ou tu n’est point flatté”. Another legend reminds the reader that he is only dust, and to dust he must return:—“_Vous estes poudre, & vous retournéres en poudre_”. [Illustration: A HUMAN SKULL RESTING ON THE SKULL OF A DOG (From the “Fabrica”, 1543)] CHAPTER TENTH Publication of the Epitome [Illustration: Illuminated capital] Upon the thirteenth day of August, 1542, Vesalius finished the _Epitome_ of his great book. The text and illustrations for it were forwarded to Basel by the same merchant who conveyed the manuscript and drawings of the _Fabrica_. The title of the lesser work is as follows:— _Andreae Vesalii Bruxellensis, Scholae medicorum Patavinae professoris, suorum de Humani corporis fabrica librorum Epitome. Basil., et officina Joannis Oporini, Anno, 1543, mense Junio._