director of the Latin school in Basle / Rektor der Basler Lateinschule
initially by his father, then medical studies in Montpellier, then returned to his native Basel to practice medicine.
Switzerland
Observationes : Krankheitsbeobachtungen in drei Büchern, ed. Heinrich Buess. Bern & Stuttgart: 1963; Tagebuch (Lebensbeschreibung) 1536-1567, ed. Valentin Lötscher. Basel & Stuttgart, 1976
F. P. collected drawings by -> Conrad Gessner, cf. http://adayinthelifeofaresearcher.wordpress.com/2013/02/26/animal-drawings-collected-by-felix-platter-1536-1614-part-1/
anatomical and neuroanatomical drawing ; natural, botanical, and zoological drawing, watercolour & hand-colouring