Juan Valverde de Amusco

Juan Valverde de Amusco, also written Valverde de Hamusco, was a Spanish anatomist of the sixteenth century, born in the Crown of Castile around 1525. He studied medicine in Padua and Rome under Realdo Colombo and Bartolomeo Eustachi and published several works on anatomy, including a small book on the health of mind and body printed in Paris in 1552. His most famous work, the Historia de la composicion del cuerpo humano, first appeared in Rome in 1556. All but four of its forty two copperplate illustrations were taken almost directly from Vesalius, who bitterly accused him of plagiarism, though Valverde sometimes corrected Vesalius, for example in the muscles of the eyes, nose and larynx.