There’s a lot of things that can kill a man
There’s a lot of ways to die
Yes, and some already dead that walk beside me
To obtain a true and perfect knowledge [of the vascular system] I have dissected more than ten human bodies, destroying all the other members, and removing the very minutest particles of the flesh by which these veins are surrounded. And as one single body would not last so long, since it was necessary to proceed with several bodies by degrees, until I came to an end and had a complete knowledge; this I repeated twice, to learn the differences…Da Vinci’s studies of the human body.
