ADAM, Melchior

"First edition. Collection of brief biographies of German physicians of the 16th and early 17th centuries (Agrippa, Paracelsus, Agricola, Vesalius, Fuchs, Clusius etc.) but also many less known physicians whose biographies are often difficult to find elsewhere. Ref. Krivatsy 37 ; Waller 15736 The biography of Vesalius (pp. 129-34) includes the first printing of the letter by Hubert Languet of Jan. 1, 1565, in which he gives a dramatic account of Vesalius's death"