. 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. ngs, or the pulmonary circulation. To Columbus the liver is stillthe fons, origo, et radix—the head, fount, and origin—of all theveins ; the heart is not a muscle. There is something unsatisfactory ( ) about his claims to originality. Indeed, it is probabletitle to originality of any kind. (R. Willis.) he had no AMONGST the anatomists of the sixteenth century, after Vesalius,BARTHOLINUS EUSTACHIUS, who was born
. 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. ngs, or the pulmonary circulation. To Columbus the liver is stillthe fons, origo, et radix—the head, fount, and origin—of all theveins ; the heart is not a muscle. There is something unsatisfactory ( ) about his claims to originality. Indeed, it is probabletitle to originality of any kind. (R. Willis.) he had no AMONGST the anatomists of the sixteenth century, after Vesalius,BARTHOLINUS EUSTACHIUS, who was born at SanSeverino, is, perhaps, the most distinguished. His name is stillpreserved in anatomical story by the terms Eustachian tube andEustachian valve. His physiology was entirely Galenic. He wasProfessor of Anatomy at Rome, where he died in 1574. The platesof his work on anatomy were engraved in 1552, but Eustachius wastoo poor to publish them. Indeed, they were only brought to light andpublished by Jo. Maria Lancisius—who was Intimus Cubicularius,Archiater PontificAs to Pope Clement XL—under the title Tabula;Anatomical, in 1714. The following; woodcut is taken from this. ANATOMICAL THEATRE FROM EUSTACHIUS. The plates themselves have an engraved scale at the Douglas, in his Bibliographic^ Anatomical Specimen, &c, as usual,in italics, brings out certain salient features. Eustachius saw thethoracic duct in the horse, but did not recognise its importance. Ductura fchoracicum quem in venam, referre albam instructam ostiolo semicirculari intra venam jugularem internam hiante. Valvulam orificio vena? in corde coronalis prrepositarn primus omnium observavit. Valvulam in vena cava prope cordis auriculam dextram lit suum inventum prwdicat [see Sylvius] eamque exactissime describit. GABRIEL FALLOPPIUS, born at Modena in 1523 (Douglasgives 1490), died at Padua 1563, was called from Pisa to Paduato occupy the Chair of Vesalius, but he held it only for two was pros
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