Title page of Fabricius's tract on the valves of the veins, 1603. Hieronymus Fabricius or Girolamo Fabrizio, aka Fabricius ab Aquapendente and Girolamo Fabrizi d'Acquapendente, 1533 – 1619. Italian pioneering anatomist and surgeon known in medical science as The Father of Embryology. From Selected Readings in the History of Physiology, published 1930.

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