. Some apostles of physiology : being an account of their lives and labours, labours that have contributed to the advancement of the healing art as well as to the prevention of disease. by his Latin name of STENO. In 1656 he attended theUniversity of his native town, where it was then the custom for astudent to attach himself to some particular Professor, and Stensenchose Thomas Bartholinus. Simon Paulli, the precursor of Bartholinin the Chair of Anatomy, was also one of his teachers. It wascustomary for Danish students, after passing three years or so attheir own University, to proceed to oth
. Some apostles of physiology : being an account of their lives and labours, labours that have contributed to the advancement of the healing art as well as to the prevention of disease. by his Latin name of STENO. In 1656 he attended theUniversity of his native town, where it was then the custom for astudent to attach himself to some particular Professor, and Stensenchose Thomas Bartholinus. Simon Paulli, the precursor of Bartholinin the Chair of Anatomy, was also one of his teachers. It wascustomary for Danish students, after passing three years or so attheir own University, to proceed to other Universities. Thus, we findStensen in Amsterdam, three years later, in the house of Gerh. Blasius,a former pupil of T. Bartholinus. Scarcely had Stensen, in 1661, begun to dissect, when he dis-covered the duct of the parotid gland, which bears his name, ductusStenonianus. This discovery led to a dispute with Blasius, andStensen went to Leyden, where, on the 6th and 9th of July, withVan Home as president, he gave a brilliant Disputation on hisdiscovery of the glands with ducts. Later, he investigated the glandsconnected with the eyeball—De Ghtudutis (Lugd. in z UJ in
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