CLEP Western Civ II

Answer: E - Medicine improved significantly because of the dissection of human bodies. While this would not become standard practice in medical schools until rather late in the century, medical pioneers published accurate drawings of the systems of the human body. Texts such as William Harvey's On the Movement of the Heart and Blood (1628), which incorporated improvements in printing allowing for the reproduction of illustrations, allowed medical students to gain a better understanding of human anatomy. Popular belief required that corpses be buried intact. This would limit medical students' access to human bodies until the late 19th century; however, the limited dissection discussed in print sources was enough to move medicine forward.