The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Zerbi, Gabriel

ZERBI, or DE ZARBIS, Gabriel, Italian physician and anatomist: b. Verona in the 15th century; d. there, 1505. He lectured for some time at Rome, and became professor of medicine at Padua in 1495. His chief work is &lsquo;Anatomy of the Human Body&rsquo; (&lsquo;Liber Anatomiæ Corporis humani&rsquo;), published about 1490, a work remarkable for its keen insight and deductions confirmed by later discoveries in anatomy.