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professor of anatomy as successor to Fallopius, who had 

 died in 1563, and that, had he lived, he would have come 

 back honorably to his old post. 



Eustachius and Fallopius. The work of two of his con- 

 temporaries, Eustachius and Fallopius, requires notice. 

 Cuvier says in his Histoire des Sciences Naturelles that those 

 three men were the founders of modern anatomy. Vesalius 



FIG. 8. FALLOPIUS, 1523-1563. 



was a greater man than either of the other two, and his 

 influence was more far-reaching. He reformed the entire 

 field of anatomy, while the names of Eustachius and Fallopius 

 are connected especially with a smaller part of the field. 

 Eustachius described the Eustachian tube of the ear and gave 

 especial attention to sense organs; Fallopius made special 

 investigations upon the viscera, and described the Fallopian 

 tube. 



