In the last paragraph of the introduction to his book Atlas of Human Anatomy , Dr Netter states, "We did think of men like Vesalius, Leonardo da Vinci, William Hunter, and Henry Gray, who of course are unfortunately unavailable, but I do wonder what their comments might have been about this atlas." Perhaps the first medical illustrator was Berengario da Carpi (1460-1530), whom Garrison called "the first to prepare anatomical designs from nature." Berengario, professor of surgery at Bologna (1502-1527) and author of the book A Commentary on Modino , presented himself as an anatomist-illustrator. He was the first of the pre-Vesalian anatomists to present an illustrated anatomy. Even earlier, however, Donatello (1386-1466) was one of the first artists to take up the scientific study of anatomy. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) dissected approximately 50 bodies and made over 750 drawings. Vesalius (1514-1564), William Hunter (1718-1783), Henry Gray (1827-1861), and doubtless others would