General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . akc the medical professorship at Ingolstadt. lived he shewed them marks of his favour, and Thence, on account of religion, he removed to a little before his death granted them their li- Onoltzbach, and was appointed first physician bertv. When, after that event, they were about to the margrave of Brandenburg. In 1535 he to avail themselves of their freedom, and to re- was invited to Tubingen, at which place he turn ho
General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . akc the medical professorship at Ingolstadt. lived he shewed them marks of his favour, and Thence, on account of religion, he removed to a little before his death granted them their li- Onoltzbach, and was appointed first physician bertv. When, after that event, they were about to the margrave of Brandenburg. In 1535 he to avail themselves of their freedom, and to re- was invited to Tubingen, at which place he turn home, they were importunately requested occupied the chairs of physic and anatomy as by the queen-recent to remain some time longer long as he lived. He was ennobled by the em- in the country, and to undertake the tutelage peror Charles V.; and Cosmo, grand-duke of of her son till he should be of age. Having Florence, was desirous of engaging him by a consented to her request, they appear to have large salary to settle at Pisa, but he declined the obtained liberty for the Roman merchants re- offer. He was the first German physician **CcrtY&^<A^llS F V ClHSl V S. 5 F U E ( 255 ) r v e whose name became celebrated in foreign coun-tries. He died in 1565. Fuchs was a man oflearning, a voluminous writer, and a staunchdefender of ancient medical doctrine, as exist-ing among the Greeks. It is not worth whileto transcribe the long list of his writings, nowcertainly no longer read, and possessing littleoriginality. Several of them are translations ofvarious works of Hippocrates and Galen, withcommentaries. His Medendi Methodus,and Institutiones Medicae, are almost entirelyfounded upon the fathers of medicine abovementioned. His Paradoxorum MedicinaeLib. Ill contain much invective against theArabians, and correction of their errors, boththeoretical and practical. In his work UeCorporis humani Fabrica, he copies his ana-tomical descriptions from Galen and Vesalius,and was sufficientl
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