Editing Jean Fernel (section)

===Physiology===
As a physician and professor of medicine at the Collège de Coenouailles for over 20 years, Fernel is credited with the [[neologism]], ''[[physiology]]'', a discipline which became one of the central topics of education and research in the field of medicine.<ref name="tubbs">{{cite journal|pmid=25676717|year=2015|last1=Shane Tubbs|first1=R|title=Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events|journal=Clinical Anatomy|volume=28|issue=2|pages=151|doi=10.1002/ca.22526|s2cid=19322528|doi-access=free}}</ref> His early understanding of physiology, especially of the brain, was represented by three statements commonly quoted in physiological history:<ref name=tubbs/>
*"Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events."
*The brain was "the seat of the mind and its parts; the mind being endowed with numerous faculties, man has rightly been provided with a larger accommodation for it than the other creature possess, and this accommodation is associated with more instruments."
*"The brain is the citadel and dwelling of the human mind, the abode of thoughts and of the reason, the wellspring and origin of movement and of every sense; it occupies the highest point of the body, looking upwards, nearest to heaven."
  
His medical works included ''De naturali parte medicinae'' (1542), ''De vacuandi ratione'' (1545), ''De abditis rerum causis'' (1548) which included a chapter on [[angelology]] and [[demonology]].<ref>[[Nancy G. Siraisi]], ''The Clock and the Mirror: Girolamo Cardano and Renaissance medicine'' Princeton University Press (1997) {{ISBN|0691011893}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=eQKqbOvg-QQC&pg=PA160 p. 160].</ref> What has been called his "crowning work",<ref>{{cite journal|author=Welch, G. R. |journal=Nature|volume=456|page=446|year=2008|doi=10.1038/456446b|title=In Retrospect: Fernel's Physiologia|issue=7221|bibcode=2008Natur.456..446W|s2cid=28626298|doi-access=free}}</ref> ''Universa Medicina'', comprises three parts: the ''Physiologia'' (developed from the ''De naturali parte''), the ''Pathologia'', and the ''Therapeutice''.