, one of the most celebrated anatomists of the sixteenth century,
, one of the most celebrated anatomists of the sixteenth century, was a native of
San Severino, a village in Italy. He was educated at Rome,
where he first conceived a bias in favour of medicine, and
especially of anatomy, and cultivated the latter with such
success, that he was appointed to the professor’s chair in
that college. His life probably passed in the quiet pursuit
of his studies and exercise of his profession, as no other
events are on record concerning him. He died at Home
in 1574. Eustachius was the author of several works, the
greater part of which are lost. His treatise “De Controversiis Anatomicorum,
” which was one of the most considerable of his productions, is much regretted. His opuscula which remain appeared under the following titles,
“Opuscula Anatomica, nempe de Renum structura, officio,
et administratione de auditus organo ossium examen
de mom capitis de vena quae azygos dicitur, et de alia,
quae in flexn brachii communem profundam producit de
dentibus,
” Venet. Opuscula
” as nearly finished; but they were not discovered until 1714, when they were published at Rome by
Lancisi, physician to pope Clement XL in one volume,
folio. These plates were again published, but not well
printed, at Geneva in 1717. The edition of Rome in 1728
is excellent; but the one published at the same city in
1740, by Petrioli, is less valuable. The same work was
twice published at Leyden, under the direction of Albinus,
viz. in 1744 and 1762. Eustachius edited the lexicon of
Erotran at Venice in 1666, under the title of “Erotiani,
Graeci scriptoris vetustissimi, vocum, quae apud Hippocratem sunt, collectio, cum annotatiombus Eustachii,
” in
quarto.