Fracastorius
Americannoun
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A good idea of the accomplishment of the medical teachers of the time may be judged very well from the life of Fracastorius.
From The Century of Columbus by Walsh, James J.
What Fracastorius did for syphilis, Caius did for the sweating sickness, and Mercado for petechial typhus.
From Science and Medieval Thought The Harveian Oration Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians, October 18, 1900 by Allbutt, Sir Thomas Clifford
SANTBECH.—A very prominent ring-plain, 46 miles in diameter, on the S.E. side of the Mare Foecunditatis, W. of Fracastorius.
From The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Elger, Thomas Gwyn
The floor of Fracastorius is, as regards the light streaks and other features upon it, only second in interest to those of Plato and Archimedes, and will repay systematic observation.
From The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Elger, Thomas Gwyn
Likewise Hieronimus Fracastorius, a learned Italian, and traveller in the north parts of the same land.
From Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage by Morley, Henry
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