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respiratory of Bell, — is named for this 

 surgeon. 



Bell, John. —A Scotch anatomist, born 1762; 

 died 1820. Two longitudinal bands of 

 muscle contained in the two slight folds 

 which stretch from the uvula vesicae to 

 each ureter, and form the boundaries of 

 the trigome, are known as Bell's 

 muscles. He wrote two works, "Ana- 

 tomy and Physiology of the Human 

 Body" and " Frinciples of Surgery." 



Bellini, Laurentio (Lorenzo) — An anat- 

 omist of Florence, Italy, born 1643 ; died 

 1704. FQr a while he was professor of 

 anatomy at Pisa, and later became 

 physician to Cosimo III, at Florence. 

 In 1662, when^only 19 years of age, he 

 wrote a tract on the structure of the 

 kidney. The Duke of Tuscany had 

 sent to Bovelli a deer to be used for 

 anatomical purposes, and Bellini, under 

 Bovelli's guidance, capefuHy examined 

 the kidneys. It was lin^ef these cir- 

 cumstances that he di^overed the uri- 

 nary tubules, his on^ valuabk contri- 

 bution to anatomy. '\ 



Bernard, Claude. — A French physiologist, 

 born 1813; died 1878. Originally a 

 tragic poet, he finally turned his atten- 

 tion to the natural sciences and to 

 medicine. He was the successor of 

 Magendie, and was famous as an ex- 

 perimentalist in physiology and path- 

 ology. His numerous works relate to 

 the digestion of fat by the aid of the 

 pancreatic juice, the formation of sugar 

 in the liver, the production of diabetes 

 by puncture of the fourth ventricle, and 



