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FERNEL, Jean François (1497 – 1558)

FERNEL, Jean François (1497 – 1558)

1497 – 1558

4 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Vigneron, artist; G. Engelmann, lithographer · ihm.nlm.nih.gov · Public domain

1542

#572

De naturali parte medicinae libri septem.

The earliest work devoted exclusively to physiology and the first to call the subject by that name. It was re-issued in 1554 as part of Fernel’s Medicina (No. 2271). Femel suggested that physicians should study the hu…

1554

#2271

Medicina. 3 pts.

The first systematic treatise on pathology, which also introduced the names for the sciences of pathology and physiology. In the second part, entitled “Pathologia”, Fernel provided the first systematic essay on the su…

1579

#2374

Deluis venereae curatione perfectissima liber.

French translation, Paris, 1879.

2004

#11503

Jean Fernel's On the hidden causes of things: Forms, souls and occult diseases in Renaissance medicine.