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  • Fifteenth counsel, tells a story of one fifty years of age, that grew desperate upon his mother's death; and cured by Fallopius, fell many years after into a relapse, by the sudden death of a daughter which he had, and could never after be recovered.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • The root of it is only in use, which may be kept many years, and by some given in substance, as by Fallopius and Brassivola amongst the rest, who [4232] brags that he was the first that restored it again to its use, and tells a story how he cured one

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Montaigne was here in the 15th century, and Fallopius, he of the trumpets, came here to be cured of deafness -- which is one of the infirmities which the Latin inscription declares to have yielded to the use of the waters.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. Various

  • When Galileo, Fallopius, Fabricius, and other celebrated men were professors at this university, it could boast of numerous students from all parts of the world: Tasso and Columbus were educated here.

    Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta W. Cope Devereux

  • In 1561 Fallopius, who had studied under Vesalius, published his

    Fathers of Biology Charles McRae

  • Fallopius, and he consequently retained the document until Vesalius, on his way to Jerusalem, took possession of it, and caused it to be published without delay.

    Fathers of Biology Charles McRae

  • Vesalius, Fallopius and Fabricius, and the first systematists (though their "systems" were little more than catalogues) Rondeletius,

    Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

  • Venice, orator to the King of Spain, who was to give it to Fallopius.

    Fathers of Biology Charles McRae

  • To the North American Review, November, 1902, Edith Wharton contributed a poem on "Vesalius in Zante," in which she pictures his life, so full of accomplishment, so full of regrets -- regrets accentuated by the receipt of an anatomical treatise by Fallopius, the successor to the chair in Padua!

    The Evolution of Modern Medicine 1921

  • Vesalius, who made the school the most famous anatomical centre in Europe, was succeeded by Fallopius, one of the best-known names in anatomy, at whose death an unsuccessful attempt was made to get Vesalius back.

    The Evolution of Modern Medicine 1921

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