My Research vs. Galen's Research on Apes

Galen himself

         So many errors..... All by the famous Galen whom even the church had come to support. According to Galen, men had one less rib bone than that of a woman, supporting the theory that women were created from a single rib bone of Adam himself. Such a challenge put before me, it seemed impossible. I told a friend once," They merely chop up the things which are to be shown on the instructions of the physician, who, having never put his hand to cutting, simply steers the boat from the commentary—and not without arrogance. And thus all things are taught wrongly, and days go by in silly disputations." It was by this which drove me to publish the "humani corpus fabrica". The information which Galen had presented in the 1300s was insufficient for they were all anatomical structures of Barbary apes. My intolerant colleagues had decided to attempt to shoot down my research, telling me human structures would have changed over such a course of time, addressing the differences of the anatomy of my examples and Galen's drawings. There are multitudes of severe implications indicating the differences in our studies such as the differences in the jaws of us and of the Barbary apes he had chosen to dissect. His laws had limited him to those of animals, his ambition to discover was naught compared to that of mine. Galen had made his mistake in trying to pass an ape as a human; he took the liberty to modify his recordings to fit his likings. He had a theory of how the blood reaches the higher organs which theorized the holes connecting ventricles... too bad I could never find them. I refuse however to take my argument further than that, for all I need to prove his mistakes are in my books.