Bernard was especially interested in anatomy, and soon made himself known by the perfection of his Dissections.
"Makers of Modern Medicine"
James J. Walsh
Upon Dissections were discovered large and corrupted Spleens, sphacelous and corroded Tongues, some had Angina Maligna's.
"The Plague at Marseilles Consider'd"
Richard Bradley
But, if it was an Italian archaeologist who destroyed the wilding growths in the Colosseum and scraped it to a bareness which nature is again trying to clothe with grass and weeds, it ought to be remembered that it is another Italian archaeologist who has set laurels all up and down the slopes of the Forum, and has invited roses and honeysuckles to bloom wherever they shall not interfere with science, but may best help repair the wounds he must needs deal the soil in researches which seem no mere Dissections, but feats of a conservative, almost a constructive surgery.
"Roman Holidays and Others"
W. D. Howells