J^otes to Introductory Lecture, xlv 



Ihe years 876 and 950. Abul Pharagius was a native of 

 Malatia, and died in 1286, at Aleppo, primate of the East. 

 His work (Historia Dynast.) was translated from the Ara- 

 bic, by the learned Pococke, into Latin, 1659. 



JSTote i. 



Under the auspices of Almanzur, the second caliph, and 

 his son Abdallah, Bagdad arose and flourished in the East, 

 (762) and at once became the residence of the successors of 

 Mahomet, and for a long time the seat of all the learning in 

 that quarter of the world. The exertions of the learned 

 men of that day, however, were confined to translating an- 

 cient Greek manuscripts : they made no dissections. Never- 

 theless the spirit of inquiry was thus kept up, and to their 

 translations did the western part of Europe owe their ac- 

 quaintance with the learning of the ancients. 



JK'ote 5. 



Andrew Vesalius was born at Brussels about the year 

 1512 or 1514. He was educated at Louvain, and studied 

 anatomy at Paris, under Sylvius. In 1537 he was appointed 

 professor at Padua, by the republic of Venice. Charles the 

 iifth called him to be his physician, and he was also physician 

 to Philip the second. He published his celebrated work, lie 

 Humani Corporis fahrica, in 1543, when only about 30 years 

 of age : in this he detected the anatomical errors of Galen, 

 and proved that he had taken his descriptions from brutes. 

 This service to truth raised him numerous enemies. He is 

 said to have been forced to fly, or to banish himself, in con- 

 sequence of having opened the body of a Spanish nobleman, 

 supposed to be dead, but Avhose heart he found beating. 

 Other causes are ascribed for the act, but whatever was the 

 motive, he set out to visit Jerusalem with Rimini, general 

 of the Venetian army, and returning at the invitation of <he 

 senate of Venice, to fill the chair at Padua, he was ship- 

 wrecked, and died on the island of Zantc, in 156 i. 



Fallopius was born in 1490, and was a pupil of Vesalius, 

 and afterwards professor at Pisa, and at Padua, where he 



