10 Facts About Jacques Dubois

Jacques Dubois was the brother of Franciscus Sylvius Ambianus, professor of humanities at the College de Tournai, Paris.

Jacques Dubois was probably born in 1478 in Loeuilly, a small town near Amiens, the seventh in a family of fifteen.

Jacques Dubois studied languages and mathematics at the University of Paris; but feeling that the rewards were inadequate, Dubois abandoned scholarship for medicine.

Jacques Dubois acquired his anatomical knowledge thanks to Jean Fagault, a famous physician of Paris and dean of the Faculty of Medicine.

Jacques Dubois was the first professor to teach anatomy of a human corpse, in France.

Jacques Dubois treated the writings of Galen as if they were wholly sacred, he would believe that if a corpse showed structures different from those described by Galen, the error was not in the texts, but in the corpse, or the structure of the human body that had changed over the centuries.

Jacques Dubois was, moreover, never tired of teaching and so taught that none of his students ever tired of learning.

Jacques Dubois had an astonishing power of enabling them to grasp and see quite clearly that which a moment before had seemed impenetrable and terribly involved.

Jacques Dubois was the first anatomist to publish descriptions of satisfactory pterygoid process and the sphenoid bone and clinoid bone tear.

Jacques Dubois gave a good description of the sphenoid sinus in an adult, but denied its existence in children.