Felix Platter (* 28 October 1536 in Basel; "† 28 July 1617 ebd.) was a physician and a auto+biographic writer.

The son Thomas Platters of the older one studied 1552 to 1557 medicine in Montpellier and worked thereafter than physician in Basel. 1571 he was appointed the city physician and professor of the University of Basel, whose rector and Dekan were repeated he. It was famous as art, music instrument, preparation and rock collecting tank. Montaigne could not it be escaped on its journey to Italy 1580, its Herbarium visited.

A pioneer of pathological anatomy and one was flatter the founder of the court medicine. In its three-restrained text book to "opus" (1602-1608) it gave highlights of the clinical medicine Praxeos medicae. In the "plague report" on the Basler plague epidemic disease of 1610-11 it appears as a trailblazing epidemiologist. The Observationes of 1614 offers a collection of patient stories.

In its culture-historically meaning "diary", which only 1840 was published, it reports its life on its youth time, as student in France and the first time in Basel until 1561.

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