Francis Fabricius (–1572) was a physician and

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from the

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. Fabricius was born in

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around 1510 and studied the humanities in Cologne, where he excelled at Latin and Greek. He went on to study medicine and in 1533 was established as a physician in

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. From 1545 to 1552 he was based in

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, where he studied the medicinal properties of the

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s. He died in 1572.

Works

* ''Thermae aquenses, sive de Balneorum naturalium'' (Cologne, Jaspar Gennepaeus, 1546). Reprinted 1564, 1617. ** In Dutch as ''Van den warmen baden, ende in sunderheyt den genen die tot Aken sijn'' (Maastricht, Jacob Bathen, 1552).Van den warmen baden
on Google Books.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fabricius, Francis 1500s births 1572 deaths People from Roermond Physicians from the Habsburg Netherlands Renaissance humanists