. Tri-State medical journal . HISTORICAL Gabriel Fallopius (1523—1562.) By James Moores Ball, M. D., of St. Louis. ALLOPIUS, of Modena, was a notedItalian anatomist who was madeProfessor of Anatomy at Pisa in histwenty-fifth year. Although thespan of his life was short he will beremembered always on account ofthe tubes which bear his ethmoid and sphenoid bones,the muscles of the soft palate, the val-vule conniventes, the aqueduct forthe facial nerve, the communicationof the mastoid cells with the tympa-num, the fenestrse ovalis and ro-tunda—all were first described byFallop
. Tri-State medical journal . HISTORICAL Gabriel Fallopius (1523—1562.) By James Moores Ball, M. D., of St. Louis. ALLOPIUS, of Modena, was a notedItalian anatomist who was madeProfessor of Anatomy at Pisa in histwenty-fifth year. Although thespan of his life was short he will beremembered always on account ofthe tubes which bear his ethmoid and sphenoid bones,the muscles of the soft palate, the val-vule conniventes, the aqueduct forthe facial nerve, the communicationof the mastoid cells with the tympa-num, the fenestrse ovalis and ro-tunda—all were first described byFallopius. He gave a correct des-cription of the testes muliebrcs, as the ovaries were called. The tubes towhich the name Fallopian has been given were first described by Herophi -lus, one of the great anatomists of Alexandria three hundred years beforethe birth of Christ and also by Ru-fus of Ephesus, who lived in thesecond century of our era. Fallo-pius examined the tubes, cut into*4fiiem and found them hollow andgave them the name tuber seminales
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