CI)e ^orlli'6 Slnatomifitg 



naturalist and embryologist. Discovered 

 the ovum of mammals in 1827, and 

 " fifty years ago gave to morphology its 

 genetic foundations," as Hackel says in 

 his dedication. The ovum of the human 

 female described by von Baer in 1827, 

 but said to have been seen previously 

 by von Graaf, Prevost, and Dumas, and 

 called the» vesicle of Baer, is named for 

 him. / 



Baillarger, /Jules GX^iel Francois. — A 

 French physician, born 1806; died — . 

 The band of Baillarger in' the brain is 

 named for this physician. 



BartholinV Thomas. — Was a Danish 

 physic^n, born at Copenhagen, 1619 ; 

 died 1680. His name is associated with 

 one pf the ducts of the sublingual 

 glan(^; also to two small acinous glands 

 situated one on each ^side of the ex- 

 ternal opening of the vagina. 



Bauhin, Caspar. — A French anatomist, 

 born 1560; died 1624, according to 

 Mayne. Baas gives the year of his birth 

 1550. The ileo-C3£cal valve is some- 

 times known as the valve of Bauhin. 

 He was a professor at Basel, and wrote 

 a work on g}-necology. (See Blandin.) 



Bechterew. — See Bekhtereff. 



Bekhtereff, Vladmir Mikailovich — A Rus- 

 sian physician, born 1857. The nucleus 

 of Bechterew on ventral root of the 

 eighth nerve is named for him. 



Bell, Sir Charles. — An English surgeon, 

 born 1774; died 1842. The posterior 

 thoracic nerve — long thoracic, external 



