The early study of anatomy must have been frightening. “Buying corpses from grave-robbers, or bribing hangmen to turn over bodies fresh from the gallows,” sounds horrid.
Why It Took Scientists So Long to Figure Out Where Babies Come From outlines quite a few curious early notations. Among them, a Da Vinci drawing which details two channels within the penis - one channel for urine, the other connecting with the spine and brain. Sperm was referred to as ‘a drop of brain.’
Another of his drawings shows a woman, lacking ovaries, but having a tube from the uterus to the nipple. Milk was thought to come from menstrual blood - ‘explaining’ why a woman seizes to menstruate once pregnant....
We certainly have come a long way. (Maybe I should reword that... 😉)
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