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persistent defender of the Hippocratic school. The controversy 

 lasted almost throughout the sixteenth century and ended with the 

 victory of the Hippocratic school. This is what Fuchs has accom- 

 plished for medicine. 



Here may be the place to speak of him as an academic teacher. 

 Regarding the spirit in which he presented his lectures and the 

 method which he employed, we have the testimony of his contem- 

 porary and colleague, Georg Hizler, professor of Greek in the Uni- 

 versity of Tubingen, who delivered the obituary at the memorial 

 meeting held for Fuchs at the university. It is significant that a 

 philologist was selected for this honor and not a member of the medi- 

 cal faculty. This oration was published in separate form and was 

 reprinted in volume I of Fuchs' opera, 1 issued in Frankfurt the year 

 of his death. (Plate 5.) Hizler 2 says: 



In the discharge of his office as academic teacher, what diligence, persever- 

 ance, and devotion ! Here his enviable reputation was based on two vital con- 

 siderations, to wit, sound method, and pure, perspicuous speech. In the dis- 

 cussion of medical authors he took the most useful and expeditious road; he 

 never mixed in anything that was not to the point ; he diligently explained the 

 words in their true sense ; he did not spend more time than the topic in ques- 

 tion required; he did not, however, omit anything that could facilitate the ex- 

 planation. Then he gave his instruction in such a clear and simple way that 

 all could follow him with ease. Add to this the elegance of his discourse and it 

 is plain that all listened to him with pleasure. Thus his teaching of anatomy 

 was conspicuous for ability and clearness. He showed and illustrated all the 

 parts of the human body and the functions of the several parts; he explained 

 the nature of all bones and cartilages; he pointed out the various muscles, 

 veins, arteries, nerves, and the like, and demonstrated all this ' ad oculos.' 



I come now to another field of Fuchs' scientific activity, in which 

 he achieved so much and which contributed so largely to the spread- 

 ing of his fame throughout Europe. 



x Oratio de vita et morte clarissimi viri, medici et philosophi praestantissimi, D. Leon- 

 harti Fuchsii, artis medendi in Academia Tubingensi professoris doctissimi ; a doctissimo 

 viro Georgio Hizlero, Graecarum & Latinarum literarum in eadem professore habita & 

 scripta. 



2 " In docendi munere quanta sedulitas, fides, diligentia? Duabus autem maxime rebus 

 in docendo necessariis, summam consequebatur laudem : turn ilia artium via, quae nido&os 

 a Graecis dicitur : turn sermone puro, perspicuo & aperto'. Nam in explanandis medi- 

 corum scriptis, primum expeditissiman & utilissimam viam cognoscere & inire : nihil 

 a re alilnum asserre : verba sensumque, genuinum diligentissime explicare : non diutius 

 haerere & immorari, quam res, quae ad cognoscendum exponebatur, requirere videretur : 

 eorum, quae necessaria ad explicandum erant, nihil omittere. Deinde tam pure, tarn 

 aperte, tam simpliciter omnia tradere, ut facilime omnes assequerentur. Itaque, non tam 

 ordine & modo, quern seruabat, optimo, quam orationis elegantia animos auditorum 

 conciliare, ita ut cum fastidio ipsium audiret nemo. Hujus rei inter multa alia, exem- 

 plum potest esse anatome : quam docuit dexteritate & perspicuitate singulari. Humani 

 enim corporis partes, & singularum partium actiones & figuras ostendebat : omnium 

 ossium, cartilaginumque, naturam, musculos, venas, arterias, nervos & caetera indicabat, 

 & oculis subjiciebat." 



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