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His Life

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His Work

As assistant to Canano he proved the circulation of the blood, and through dissections of the Azigos vein, he was the first to describe and speculate about the venous valves found there.

He wrote several books, including Index Dioscoridis 1536, In Dioscorides de Medica materia Librum quinque enarrationis 1556 e Curationium Centuriae Septem 1556.