Interstate medical journal . ing labors, winch were to continue withinterruptions for a period of eighteen years. The same year there ap-peared two books of interest to physicians. The first was epochal, TheManner of Treating Wounds Made by Arquebuses and Other Firearmsand Those Made by Arrows, Darts and the Like, and Also by Burns MadeEspecially by Gunpowder; Composed by Ambroise Pare, Master BarberSurgeon in Paris. The other, of historic interest, was a history of theWest Indies by Ovieda, in which the statement was made, for the firsttime, that syphilis originated in America.* The year foll
Interstate medical journal . ing labors, winch were to continue withinterruptions for a period of eighteen years. The same year there ap-peared two books of interest to physicians. The first was epochal, TheManner of Treating Wounds Made by Arquebuses and Other Firearmsand Those Made by Arrows, Darts and the Like, and Also by Burns MadeEspecially by Gunpowder; Composed by Ambroise Pare, Master BarberSurgeon in Paris. The other, of historic interest, was a history of theWest Indies by Ovieda, in which the statement was made, for the firsttime, that syphilis originated in America.* The year following wasmarked by Luthers death. Our hero was sixteen when Calvin burnedanother great anatomist, Servetus, at the stake. The Society of Jesus,still under the generalship of Ignatius Loyola, was operating within thechurch a wonderful revival in learning, zeal and virtue. During the latter *The Fabriva of Vesalius had been published at Basel two years before. SKETCH OF THE LIKE AND WRITINGS OP FABRICIUS OF Al^UAPENDENTE. (149. 650 GRINDON. part of his life England enjoyed that wonderful outburst of literary geniuswhich gave us Spencer, Kit Marlowe and Shakespeare. Bacon and Burtonwere in the midst of their literary labors, although the Novum Organumdid not appear until the year following Fabriciuss death, and the Anat-omy of Melancholy the year following that. At the same time the liter-ature of Spain and of the world was being enriched by Lope de Vega andMiguel de Cervantes. The deaths of Cervantes and of Shakespeare, oc-curring on the same day, preceded that of Fabricius by three years. While Fabricius was studying anatomy at Padua, Tasso was writingthe Gerusalemme Liberata at the Court of Ferrara, Michael Angelo wasplanning the dome of St. Peters, Benvenuto Cellini was dividing his timebetween sculpture, metal-work and his masterly if vitriolic autobiography,while as chapel-master at the church of St. John Lateran, Palestrina waslaying the foundations of modern music. Raphael
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