On translating Vesalius.

Andreas Vesalius's great anatomical treatise De humani corporis fabrica (1543) still awaits translation into an accessible modem language, and an English version which makes available to Latinless readers even a small part of the remarkable scholarship of this work will command much attention. The sections dealing with the larynx have been translated by D. H. Garrison and M. H. Hast, and their version was published recently in this journal. ' The present article examines their translation critically by comparing passages from it with the original Latin, and in so doing suggests that it falls some way short of fulfilling the heavy responsibility that lies upon anyone who undertakes to translate this text.