title: An early reader of Vesalius' Fabrica.
abstract: Hieronymus Gemusaeus (1505-1544), Professor of Medicine at Basle, is the earliest known reader of Vesalius' "Fabrica", commenting on it in a preface dated 1 August 1543.
authors.affiliation: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, Great Britain.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Nutton
mesh_terms: D000715:Anatomy / Q000266:history*; D049669:History, 16th Century; D013557:Switzerland