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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 119 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FABRICIUS, HIERONYMUS [FABRIZIO, GERONIMOI (1537-1619), See also:Italian anatomist and embryologist, was surnamed Acquapendente from the episcopal See also:city of that name, where he was See also:born in 1537. At See also:Padua, after a course of See also:philosophy, he studied See also:medicine under G. See also:Fallopius, whose successor as teacher of See also:anatomy and See also:surgery he became in 1562. From the senators of See also:Venice he received numerous honours, and an anatomical See also:theatre was built by them for his See also:accommodation. He died at Venice on the 21st of May 1619. His See also:works include De visione, voce et auditu (1600), De fortnato foetu (1600), De venarum ostiolis (1603), De formation ovi et pulli (1621), His collected works were published at See also:Leipzig in 1687 as See also:Opera omnia Anatomica et Physiologica, but the See also:Leiden edition, published by See also:Albinus in 1738, is preferred as containing a See also:life of the author and the prefaces of his See also:treatises.

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