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physician and physiologist, born at 

 Hanover in 1614; died 1672. He was 

 a celebrated teacher, and gave especial 

 attention to the chemical problems pre- 

 sented by the human body. " We owe to 

 him, it is true, and not to his older 

 namesake, the aqueduct of Sylvius ; but 

 the new things which he made known 

 were in the main chemical." 



Sylvius, Jacobus (Latin for Jacques) Du 

 Bois.— A French physician and anato- 

 mist, born at Amiens, in 1478 ; died in 

 1555. The fissure of Sylvius and other 

 structures are named for him. In 

 1 53 1 he began to teach anatomy at 

 Paris, and in 1550 succeeded Vidius 

 Vidus in the Chair of Medicine 

 in the recently established College 

 of France. He was Vesalius's master, 

 as indeed the master of most anat- 

 omists of that age. He was noted 

 for his oddity as well as for science. 

 He was a miser — "avarice itself" — com- 

 pelling his servants to live on dry 

 bread. In cold weather he would run 

 about with a log on his shoulder in or- 

 der to keep warm and save the cost of 

 fuel ! He must not be confounded with 

 P'ranciscus (Latin for Francois) Sylvius 

 De la Boe (or Dubois). 



Tarin, Pierre. — A French surgeon, born 

 1725; died 1761. The posterior perfo- 

 rated space, or poris Tarini — part of 

 the floor of the third ventricle, — is 

 named for him. 



Tenon, J. Rene.— A French surgeon and 

 oculist, born 1724; died 1816. Tenon's 

 capsule of the eyeball is named after 



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