Abstract
ANATOMY is the oldest and most protean of the medical sciences. Although the intent of this Forum is the description and discussion of new advances of importance to medicine, it is nonetheless necessary to place medical science in perspective, to trace the sweep of history, to show that anatomy today is but continuing to play a part begun centuries ago and as fundamental now as ever in the past. Anatomy's contributions to medicine may be traced by the names of men. It has been said that anatomy is what anatomists do. Anatomists have caused revolutions and counterrevolutions in medicine. Aristotle and Galen, Vesalius and Leonardo daVinci, Schleiden and Schwann, Johannes Mueller and Virchow, DeGraff and John Hunter, Bell and Magendie, Claude Bernard and Glisson, Ehrlich and Koch, Allen, Smith and Evans, Franklin Paine Mall, and others too numerous to name have left indelible imprints on the pages of medical history.
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