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thence to Cyprus, from which place he went on to 

 Jerusalem, and was returning, not to Madrid, but to 

 Padua, where the professorship of physic had been 

 offered him, when he suffered shipwreck on the island 

 of Zante, and there perished miserably of hunger and 

 grief, on October 15, 1564, before he had reached the 

 age of fifty. His body was found by a travelling gold- 

 smith, who recognized, notwithstanding their starved 

 outlines, the features of the renowned anatomist, and 

 respectfully buried his remains and raised a statue to his 

 memory. 



Two of the works of this great man have been already 

 referred to, namely: " De corporis Humani Fabrica;" 

 "De usu Radicis Chinae." Besides these the following 

 have appeared : " Examen Observationum Gabrielis 

 Fallopii ; " " Gabrielis Cunei Examen, Apologias Fran- 

 cisci Putei pro Galeno in Anatome ; " a great work on 

 Surgery in seven books. 



With respect to the last of these, it may be sufficient 

 to remark that there is every reason to believe that the 

 name of the famous anatomist was stolen after his death 

 to give value to the production, which was compiled and 

 published by a Venetian named Bogarucci ; and that 

 Vesalius is not responsible for the contents. 



The other works are undoubtedly genuine. In 1562 

 Andreas seems to have been roused for a short time 

 from the lethargy into which he had sunk, by an attack 



