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FALLOPIUS (or FALLOPIO), GABRIELLO (1523-1562) , See also:Italian anatomist, was See also:born about 1523 at See also:Modena, where he became a See also:canon of the See also:cathedral. He studied See also:medicine at See also:Ferrara, and, after a See also:European tour, became teacher of See also:anatomy in that See also:city. He thence removed to See also:Pisa, and from Pisa, at the instance of Cosmo I., See also:grand-See also:duke of See also:Tuscany, to See also:Padua, where, besides the chairs of anatomy and See also:surgery and of See also:botany, he held the See also:office of See also:superintendent of the new botanical See also:garden. He died at Padua on the 5th of See also:October 1562. Only one See also:treatise by Fallopius appeared during his lifetime, namely the Observationes anatomicae (See also:Venice, 1561). His collected See also:works, See also:Opera genuina omnia, were published at Venice in 1584.

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