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<h2 id="medicine-and-physiology">Medicine and physiology</h2> <ul><li>June–October – Outbreak of <a href="/facts/Bubonic_plague/N9dCQ3EP">bubonic plague</a> in <a href="/facts/London/KozCCsy9">London</a> kills over 20,000.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Bartolomeo_Eustachi/XHgDGpbK">Bartolomeo Eustachi</a> publishes <i>De Renibus</i> (including his discovery of the <a href="/facts/Adrenal_glands/3f8jV5aJ">adrenal glands</a>) and <i>Libellus De Dentibus</i> (in <a href="/facts/Venice/Xzc2uVDg">Venice</a>), a pioneering text on <a href="/facts/Dentition/yMEdzfHh">dentition</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Garcia_de_Orta/YkSJTo7c">Garcia de Orta</a> publishes <i><a href="/facts/Col%C3%B3quios_dos_simples_e_drogas_da_India/2alVHSEP">Colóquios dos simples e drogas da India</a></i> in <a href="/facts/Goa/KKXvbLSS">Goa</a>, the first text in a Western language on <a href="/facts/Tropical_medicine/l7l3lGh0">tropical medicine</a> and drugs, including a classic description of <a href="/facts/Cholera/rk8JfWEp">cholera</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Felix_W%C3%BCrtz/WDWBoT7j">Felix Würtz</a> publishes his critical treatise on surgery, <i>Praktika der Wundartzney</i>, in <a href="/facts/Basel/EzXbzbUx">Basel</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="publications">Publications</h2> <ul><li><i>prob. date</i> – <a href="/facts/Bernardino_Telesio/wSdvUpgK">Bernardino Telesio</a> – <i>De Rerum Natura Iuxta Propria Principia</i>.</li></ul> <h2 id="births">Births</h2> <ul><li>October 14 – <a href="/facts/Jodocus_Hondius/6qQXddYM">Jodocus Hondius</a>, <a href="/facts/Flemish_people/MIyUKkDM">Flemish</a> <a href="/facts/Cartographer/8YdDAAeX">cartographer</a> (died <a href="/facts/1612_in_science/UpwQpXUt">1612</a>)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Louise_Bourgeois_Boursier/gBVkUy5m">Louise Bourgeois Boursier</a>, <a href="/facts/French_people/984axQ8y">French</a> Royal <a href="/facts/Midwifery/vdh9DMEK">midwife</a> (died <a href="/facts/1636_in_science/PVQFnxxS">1638</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Yi_Su-gwang/IVhvV2T3">Yi Su-gwang</a>, <a href="/facts/Korea/cj2kDBzc">Korean</a> <a href="/facts/Scholar-bureaucrat/Jtw4hjyU">scholar-bureaucrat</a> (died <a href="/facts/1628_in_science/l4vh3Dcg">1628</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Walter_Warner/JDPgaRrJ">Walter Warner</a>, <a href="/facts/English_people/IeI9c7BK">English</a> scientist (died <a href="/facts/1643_in_science/TDaA62ms">1643</a>)</li> <li><i>approx. date</i> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Oswald_Croll/zfncgkLt">Oswald Croll</a>, <a href="/facts/German_people/F7mBCrJ4">German</a> <a href="/facts/Iatrochemistry/xH8XCm2p">iatrochemist</a> (died <a href="/facts/1609_in_science/38zyxkkc">1609</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/William_Lee_(inventor)/sYP9Yr3Q">William Lee</a>, English inventor (died <a href="/facts/1614_in_science/mNLrbHUT">1614</a>)</li></ul></li></ul> <h2 id="deaths">Deaths</h2> <ul><li></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 153–156. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2. <a href="0-7126-5616-2" target="_blank">0-7126-5616-2</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Lorenz, Josef (1940). Der Chirurg Felix Wirtz: sein Leben und sein Werk. Düsseldorf. p. 6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) <a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_book" target="_blank">/wiki/Template:Cite_book</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Steinbrecher in Gerabek, Werner E. et al. (ed) (2005), Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte (Berlin) p. 1503. <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"Jodocus Hondius". brbl-dl.library.yale.edu. Retrieved 3 April 2018. <a href="https://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Author?author=Hondius%2C+Jodocus%2C+1563-1612" target="_blank">https://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Author?author=Hondius%2C+Jodocus%2C+1563-1612</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>