Robotics and the Future of Laparoscopy
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The early anatomists risked their lives to exhume fresh cadavers in order to do dissections and thereby discover anatomy based on reality and not on theory as was advocated at that time by the scholastics, who were supported by the church. For example, the scholastics believed that the number of teeth a cow had could be deduced theoretically, and they refused to go out to the pasture, open the cow's mouth, and count the teeth.
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