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Title: Studies in the history and method of science
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Singer, Charles Joseph, 1876-1960
Subjects: Medicine Science
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Plate XXXV. VIEW OF THE INTERNAL ORGANSLEONARDO DA VINCI 96 o
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THE ANOTHOMIA OF HIERONYMO MANFREDI 97 of no less an authority than Galen. Furthermore he was thefirst to describe the vermiform appendix, and he gave the earliestcorrect account of several other organs, e. g. the choroid plexusand the olfactory nerves. He was an industrious dissector, andhe tells us that he had examined more than a hundred bodies. With Carpi we close our series of Bolognese anatomists. Intothat group we now proceed to fit the writer with whom we are herespecially concerned, Hieronymo Manfredi. III. Hieronymo Manfredi Hieronymo Manfredi was a member of a family that hadalready for more than two centuries provided distinguishedcitizens, and especially physicians, to the city of Bologna.^ Hewas born about the year 1430 and was educated at the Universityof Bologna. Here in 1455 he was laureatus in Philosophy andMedicine, and here he became professor of the latter subject in1463.2 During the second half of the fifteenth century, a perfectmania for the study of astrology i

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