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his pupil's question as to the third series of glands, that no 

 names are given to those which are numerous at the root of the 

 ear, accurately filling the space there and moistening the 

 neighbouring parts (p. 188). Vesalius likewise ignores the 

 name parotid altogether, grouping the "numerous glands 

 beside the ears " with those in the axilla and groin — Hoc nullo 

 2)ecididri donatmn est nomine. However, he says later that the 

 Greeks also called these j9cw^is^7wnm ; and he farther adds, that 

 they were specially described by the classic author Marinus, 

 whose books are lost. Etienne, writing in Paris about the 

 same time, applies the name parotid to these glands (1545, p. 

 128). 



The Cambridge anatomist, Wharton, describer of the sub- 

 maxillary duct, notes the existence of this gland, and calls it 

 parotid ; he sums up the opinions of his predecessors as to its 

 functions: — 1, that it protects the branches of the blood- 

 vessels ; 2, that it takes up the excrementa of the brain ; and 3, 

 that it moistens the surrounding parts; he adds a fourth, that 

 it secretes the cerumen. He then proceeds to disprove all four, 

 and finally gives his own opinions : — 1, non7iullas durioris rami 

 nervi qidnti 2Mris superjluitates excifere et reducere in venas ; 2, 

 aurem et auricidam calore suo vefocillctre ; 3, foveam illctm in 

 auris amhitu exflere et complanare. Not the slightest sug- 

 gestion is made that it could be a salivary gland. 



The discovery of its duct was announced in 1661 by Stenon 

 in his Ohservationes Anat. de glandidis oris, etc., sec. 13, and he 

 graphically describes the occasion of its discovery — ciXm enim 

 a Dn. Gerard Leon. Blasio Clar. Gymnasii Amstelodamensis 

 Professore circa festum Paschcdos hosiMio exceptus, in illo, cui 

 sextet ah adventu m,eo lectione Jinem im2)onebat, collegio, commodam 

 cmimalia exercitio anatomico convenientia hahendi occasionem aniin- 

 adverterem, ohtinui ah illo liceret emjjta milii suhjeda privatim 

 dissecare, ut, gum a diver sis in Arte Anatomica exercitatissimis viris 

 ohservatam hactenus, ct mente rcvolvcremy et mamt imitarer. 

 Jamque eo nomine VII Aprilis, quod mihi comparaveram, 

 ovillum caput solus in museolo adorimha.m, cerehrum dissecturus, 

 cum in siii me examen decuri'entes per or a vence et arterice 

 raplunt, quce dum stylo vari6 scrutor. Se7itio me per vas aliquod 

 in amplam oris cavitatem delatum ipsos dcntes ferire. Miratus 



