Actually, microscopes remained an essential tool for many anatomists and naturalists throughout the eighteenth century.
How was it that two expert anatomists, the preeminent authorities of their time, could come to such diametrically opposed conclusions?
This aspect of mental health is being explored by anatomists, physiologists, geneticists, biochemists, neuropathologists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, psychologists, psychiatrists and other specialists.
Distinguished men bequeathed their own brains to anatomists, who expressed their gratitude with a dignified publication of the anatomical results.
The fascination with studies of the skull was shared even by anti-phrenological anatomists and anthropologists.
These investigators, a physiologist and an anatomist, shared the same interests.
These two tendencies proved incompatible, because anatomists remained skeptical about whether the reports on individual brains were trustworthy.
For example, anatomists did not generally do comparative dissections - let alone vivisections - of non-human creatures.
