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From the third century B.C.E until the twelfth century C.E. human anatomy was mainly learned through books and animal dissection. Human dissection became restricted after Boniface viii past a bull that forbade the dismemberment and boiling of corpses for funerary purposes. For many decades human dissection was thought unnecessary when all the knowledge about a human body could be read about from early authors such as Galen. In The twelfth century as universities were being established in Italy, Emperor Frederick ii made it mandatory for students of medicine to take courses on human anatomy and surgery. In the universities the lectern would sit elevated before the audience and instruct someone else in the dissection of the body, but in his early years Mondino de Luzzi performed the dissection himself making him one of the first and few to use a hands on approach to teaching human anatomy.

Mondino de Luzzi "Mundinus" was born around 1276 and died in 1326, from 1314 to 1324 he presented many lectures on human anatomy at Bologna University.[12] Mondino de'Luzzi put together a book called "Anathomia" in 1316 that consisted of detailed dissections that he had performed, this book was used as a text book in universities for 250 years.[13]