universities outside Germany like Montpellier, Basle, and Cambridge. The activities of Simone Simoni (1532-1602) at Geneva, Heidelberg and Leipzig are instructive in this respect, as was shown long ago by Frank Ludwig (Neues Archiv fiir siichsische Geschichte und Altertumskunde, 1909, 30: 209-90). Equally, while Paracelsus' own view of the body militated against any commitment to anatomical stu...