On Sonday the 18th February 1588 in the morning between 6 and
7am the doctor Felix Platter helped the baby boy Adelberg to his
life of the Basel in the 16th century (Basler Chroniken, S.
Hirtzel, 1987). Felix Platter is a well known physician who
lives works in Basel. He was born 28 October 1536 in Basel were
he died 28 July1614. Felix Platter studied medicine in
Montpellier from 1552 to 1557 with Regus Professor Guillaume
Rondelet, known also as Rondeletus (Rondeletius). Becoming a
doctor he worked as a physician in Basel. In 1571 he was
appointed city physician and professor at the University of
Basel, whose rector and dean he was several times. He was famous
collectors of art, musical instruments, stones, minerals and
plants. Platter was a pioneer of the pathologic anatomy and a
founder of forensic medicine. Under the influence of the optics
he found out in 1583 that the lens of the eye focus the image on
the back of the eye and backed up his theory with distinct
pathological cases. In his three-volume tex