Francis Fabricius (c. 1510–1572) was a physician and humanist from the Low Countries. Fabricius was born in Roermond around 1510 and studied the humanities in Cologne, where he excelled at Latin and Greek.[1] He went on to study medicine and in 1533 was established as a physician in Deventer. From 1545 to 1552 he was based in Aachen, where he studied the medicinal properties of the thermal springs. He died in 1572.[2]

Works edit

  • 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).[3]

References edit

  1. ^ J.-J. Thonissen, "Fabricius (François)", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 6 (Brussels, 1878), 819-820.
  2. ^ "Fabricius, François", in Dictionnaire des sciences médicales: biographie médicale, vol. 4 (Paris, C. L. F. Panckoucke, 1821), p. 92. On Google Books.
  3. ^ Van den warmen baden on Google Books.