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died in 1563. His works are contained in three volumes 

 folio. He was deemed among tlie first physicians and ana- 

 tomists of the age, and cultivated medicine and anatomy 

 with great zeal. 



Eustachius was contemporary with the two former, and 

 taught at Rome. He was a zealous anatomist, and the pas- 

 sage from the ear to the mouth is called after him, the Eu- 

 stachian tube, 



Fabricius Ab Aquapendente, (the preceptor of Dr. Har- 

 vey,) was professor at Padua, which for nearly 200 years 

 was the most respectable medical school on the continent of 

 Europe. His works were collected and published in Latin, 

 at Leipsic, by professor Bohn, in one volume folio, 1687, with 

 numerous plates. Besides much human anatomy, he has 

 treated largely of the organs of animals. 



JV"o/€ 6. 

 Nehemiah Grew, an ingenious and learned physician, was 

 the son of Mr. Obadiah Grew, minister in Coventry. Hav- 

 ing been sent to a foreign university for some years, he re- 

 turned, after taking the degree of doctor of physic, to Lon- 

 don, and was admitted to fellowship in the college of physi- 

 cians in 1680. He obtained extensive practice ; was elected 

 a fellow of the royal society ; and on the death of Mr. Old- 

 denburg, succeeded to the office of secretary : in consequence 

 of which he carried on the publication of the Philosophical 

 Transactions for a considerable time. He also drew up a 

 catalogue of the articles in the museum of the society, which 

 he finished in folio, under the title of Museum Regalis So- 

 cietatis. To this is generally appended a work entitled the 

 " comparative anatomy of stomachs and guts,'' being seve- 

 ral lectures read before the royal society in 1676. The work 

 however by which Grew is most deservedly celebrated, is 

 his anatomy of plants, in which he has shown a wonderful 

 degree of ingenuity. This work is accompanied by very nu- 

 merous and well executed engravings, and may be consider- 

 ed as one of the most curious performances of the seven- 



