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2011-07-25
July 25: Churches v. Medicine
Posted on 2011-07-25 by RBM-Admin
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Church opposition to surgery, dissection and the study of anatomy slowed the development of medicine.

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2010-12-31
December 31: Andreas Vesalius
Posted on 2010-12-31 by RBM-Admin
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Andreas Vesalius died at age 49 in Zakinthos, Greece. He had reached Jerusalem, but never made it back home. You could say Vesalius died for the church that persecuted him.

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October 5: John Addington Symonds

John Addington Symonds (1840) It was on this date, October 5, 1840, that British writer John Addington Symonds was born in Bristol. He was educated at Oxford and married Janet Catherine North (sister of botanical artist Marianne North), on 10 November 1864, producing four daughters. Having health problems throughout his life, Symonds gave up the […]



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