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FUCHS, LEONHARD (15o1-1566)

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FUCHS, LEONHARD (15o1-1566) , See also:German physician and botanist, was See also:born at Wembdingen in See also:Bavaria on the 17th of See also:January 15o1. He attended school at See also:Heilbronn and See also:Erfurt, and in 1521 graduated at the university of See also:Ingolstadt. About the same See also:time he espoused the doctrines of the See also:Reformation. Having in 1524 received his diploma as See also:doctor of See also:medicine, he practised for two years in See also:Munich. He became in 1526 See also:professor of medicine at Ingolstadt, and in 1528 physician to the See also:margrave of Anspach. In Anspach he was the means of saving the lives of many during the epidemic locally known as the " See also:English sweating-sickness." By the See also:duke of See also:Wurttemberg he was, in 1535, appointed to the professorship of medicine at the university of See also:Tubingen, a See also:post held by him till his See also:death on the loth of May 1566. Fuchs was an See also:advocate of the Galenic school of medicine, and published several Latin See also:translations of See also:treatises by its founder and by See also:Hippocrates. But his most important publication was De historia stirpium See also:commentarii insignes (See also:Basel, 1542), a See also:work illustrated with more than five See also:hundred excellent outline illustrations, including figures of the See also:common See also:foxglove and ofanother See also:species of the genus See also:Digitalis, which was so named by him.

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