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Medicine and physiology

• June–October – Outbreak of bubonic plague in London kills over 20,000.¹
• Bartolomeo Eustachi publishes De Renibus (including his discovery of the adrenal glands) and Libellus De Dentibus (in Venice), a pioneering text on dentition.
• Garcia de Orta publishes Colóquios dos simples e drogas da India in Goa, the first text in a Western language on tropical medicine and drugs, including a classic description of cholera.
• Felix Würtz publishes his critical treatise on surgery, Praktika der Wundartzney, in Basel.²³

Publications

• prob. date – Bernardino Telesio – De Rerum Natura Iuxta Propria Principia.

Births

• October 14 – Jodocus Hondius, Flemish cartographer (died 1612)⁴
• Louise Bourgeois Boursier, French Royal midwife (died 1638)
• Yi Su-gwang, Korean scholar-bureaucrat (died 1628)
• Walter Warner, English scientist (died 1643)
• approx. date
  • Oswald Croll, German iatrochemist (died 1609)
  • William Lee, English inventor (died 1614)

Deaths

References

1. Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 153–156. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2. 0-7126-5616-2 ↩

2. Lorenz, Josef (1940). Der Chirurg Felix Wirtz: sein Leben und sein Werk. Düsseldorf. p. 6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) /wiki/Template:Cite_book ↩

3. Steinbrecher in Gerabek, Werner E. et al. (ed) (2005), Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte (Berlin) p. 1503. ↩

4. "Jodocus Hondius". brbl-dl.library.yale.edu. Retrieved 3 April 2018. https://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Author?author=Hondius%2C+Jodocus%2C+1563-1612 ↩