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These veins carry nourishment and natural spirits to all parts of the body. Iecur fons venarum, the liver as the source of the veins, remained through the centuries the watchword of the Galenic physiology. The blood was held to ebb and flow continuously in the veins during life.
About this time he also edited for the Giunti some of the anatomical works of Galen. De anatomicis administrationibus, De venarum arterinrumque dissectione, included in the various Juntine editions of Galen. We know very little of his private life at Padua. His most important colleague in the faculty was the famous Montanus, professor of medicine.
He belonged to the "Natio Anglica," of which he was Conciliarius, and took his degree in 1602. Doubtless he had repeatedly seen Fabricius demonstrate the valves of the veins, and he may indeed, as a senior student, have helped in making the very dissections from which the drawings were taken for Fabricius' work, "De Venarum Osteolis," 1603.
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