摘要
Adriaan van den Spiegel[1578-1625]was born in the Flemish city of Brussels.He studied medicine in Louvain(Belgium)and Leiden(The Netherlands)and early on showed a keen interest in anatomical dissections(1).Also known as‘Spigelius’in Latin,he was appointed professor of dissection and surgery at the famous medical faculty of the University of Padua in Italy.
