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was a favorite pupil of Vesalius ; studied 

 at Padua, and visited Greece and France. 

 At the age of 24 he was appointed pro- 

 fessor at Ferrara, and subsequently 

 filled the same position at Paris, and 

 finally in Padua. He made numerous 

 discoveries in anatomy, and his name 

 is perpetuated in the Fallopian tubes. 



Ferrein, Antoine. — A French physician, 

 born at Frespech in 1693; died in Paris 

 in 1769. Antoine Ferrein, professor of 

 surgery and anatomy at Montpellier 

 and at Paris, made, in 1749, in company 

 with many errors, and these very great 

 ones, a slight contribution to our knowl- 

 edge when he described the rays of 

 straight tubules shooting up into the 

 cortex, since known as the pyramids 

 of Ferrein. Putting aside, however, 

 these two things, we may almost say 

 that our knowledge of the kidney re- 

 mained where Malpighi left it, until, in 

 the generation which has just passed 

 away, Bowman took up the subject 

 again. (Foster). 



Flourens, Jean Pierre Marie. — A French 

 anatomist and physiologist, born 1794; 

 died 1867. He was eminent as a phy- 

 siologist and investigator of the func- 

 tions of the individual parts of the 

 brain, le noeud vital. He demonstrated 

 the seat of the intellectual functions in 

 the cortical substance. 



Fontana, F e 1 i x — An Italian anatomist, 

 born at Pomerole, in the Tyrol, in 1730; 

 died at IMontpellier in 1805. He was 

 professor in Pisa, an anatomist who 

 gave his special attention to the eye, — 



