FALLOPIO, fri1-Wp4-5, or FALLO'PIUS, GABRIEL LE (C.1523-62) . An Italian anatomist, born at or near :Modena. if the date of birth assigned is correct, he was only twenty-five when he was promoted from the University of Fer rara to a professorship at Pisa, whence, after a few years, he was called to Padua, to succeed Vesalius (q.v.), who had been compelled by the Inquisition to resign his office. Tomassini states that Fallopius was born in 1490. He is classed, with Vesalius and Eustachio, as one of the founders of modern anatomy. He was succeeded by his favorite pupil, Fabrieius ab Aquapen dente.
De published numerous works in various de partments of medicine, of which the most impor tant is his Obserrationes dnatomicw, in Libros Quinque Digester (1861), in which he corrects many errors into which his predecessor, Vesalius, had fallen. Ile was the first to describe with accu racy the ethmoid and sphenoid bones, and the mi nute structure of the ear (the canal along which the facial passes, after leaving the auditory, is still known as the aqueduct of Fallopius), the muscles of the soft palate, and the villi and valvuhe conniventes of the small intestine. The
tubes passing from the ovary on either side to the uterus which bear his name were known to and accurately described by Herophilus and Rufus of Ephesus, 300 years before our era ; but Fallopius discovered their function. In addi tion to his anatomical fame, he had a consider able reputation as a botanist. He was the super intendent of the botanical garden at Padua ; and a genus of plants. Fallopia, has been named after him. A complete edition of his works, in four folio volumes, was published in 1600.