THIRD SKELETAL MAN: After a chapter explaining how to assemble a skeleton, and another telling how Vesalius stole a skeleton from a gibbet, comes the famous series of three skeletal men. Before a barren landscape, the third skeleton stands slightly bent, with his back to the viewer, and hands near his face, a pose suggesting grief or pain.
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Commentary: Michael North and Michael Sappol, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine (NIH).