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from Franciscus Puteus ; for to this attack a reply ap- 

 peared from a writer calling himself Gabriel Cimeus 

 which has always been attributed by the most competent 

 authorities to Vesalius himself. In this rather long work, 

 covering as it does more than fifty pages in the folio 

 edition, the views of Vesalius, which are at variance with 

 Galen, are gone through seriatim and defended. 



In 1561 Fallopius, who had studied under Vesalius, 

 published his " Anatomical Observations," containing 

 several points in which he had extended the knowledge 

 of anatomy beyond the limits reached by his master. 

 He had taught publicly for thirteen years at Ferrara, 

 and had presided for eight years over an anatomical 

 school, so that he was no novice in the field of biology. 

 Yet so completely had Vesalius lost the philosophic 

 temperament that he regarded this publication as an 

 infringement of his rights, and in this spirit wrote an 

 " Examen Observationum Fallopii," in which he decried 

 the friend who had made improvements on himself, as 

 he had been decried for his improvements on Galen. 

 The manuscript of this work, finished at the end of 

 December, 1561, was committed by the author to the 

 care of Paulus Teupulus of Venice, orator to the King 

 of Spain, who was to give it to Fallopius. The orator, 

 however, did not reach Padua until after the death of 

 Fallopius, and he consequently retained the document 

 until Vesalius, on his way to Jerusalem, took possession 



