Part 12

Pecquet of Dieppe, 100

Peripatetics, the, 24

Philip, father of Alexander, 22, 23

"Physiological division of labour," 43

Plato, 22

Pliny, 47, 48

Pneuma, 38

Punctum saliens, 35, 93, 101

Pylorus, the, described by Vesalius, 80

Pythias, 23

Receptaculum chyli, 100

Roelants, Joachim, 78

Scamnum Hippocratis, 12

Servetus, 86

Septimius Severus, 51

Slegel of Hamburg, 98

Socrates compared with Hippocrates, 7

Sprengel's opinion of Galen, 60

Sylla, 27

Sylvius, 67, 72, 73, 74

Teupulus, Paulus, 77

Theophrastus, 26

Theriac, the, 50

Thoracic duct, discovery of, 100

Tyrannion, 27

Vesalius, birth, 66; scholarship, 66; studied under Sylvius, 67; and Winter of Andernach, 67; adventure at Louvain, 67, 68; appointed professor at Padua, at Bologna, and at Pisa, 69; zeal for correctness in anatomy, 70; skill in diagnosis, 70; distrusts infallibility of Galen's teaching, 71; writes "Fabric of the Human Body," 72; is summoned to Ratisbon, 73; destroys his manuscripts, 74; his success as a practitioner, 75; charged with impiety, 75; is sent on pilgrimage, 75; shipwreck and death at Zante, 76; works, 76-80

Vis medicatrix naturæ, 9

Winter of Andernach, 67