Book Review

摘要

The teaching and study of medicine at the of Padua attracted numerous foreigners during the sixteenth century, due in part to the astounding achievements of its faculty. Padua gained a reputation from the innovations of professors such as Girolamo Fracastoro, Giambattista Da Monte, Girolamo Mercuriale, Girolamo Capodivacca, Vittore Trincavelli, Gabriele Falloppia and Girolamo Fabrici d’Aquapendente, who offered new ways of thinking about anatomy, pathology, diagnostics, pharmacology and clinical treatments. The famous but brief sojourn of Andreas Vesalius at Padua also has left an indelible mark on the history of medicine. These sixteenth-century Paduans created a culture of observation that meshed with the nascent humanistic medicine that applied philological techniques, developed by Angelo Poliziano and Niccolò Leoniceno, first to the Galenic and then the Hippocratic corpus.