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Deiters, Otto Friedrich Carl —A German 

 anatomist and histologist, born at 

 Bonn in 1834; died there in 1863. The 

 nucleus of Deiters, in the vestibular or 

 ventral root of the eighth nerve, is 

 named for him. 



Demours, Pierre.— A French surgeon and 

 ophthalmologist, born 1702 ; died 1795. 

 The posterior elastic lamina of the 

 cornea is known as Demour's membrane. 

 It is the same as Descemet's membrane. 



Descemet, Jean. — A French physician, 

 born 1732 ; died 1810. Descemet's 

 membrane : the posterior elastic lamina 

 of the cornea. It is highly elastic, and 

 when peeled off rolls up with the an- 

 terior convex surface inwards. (Mayne). 

 Jacob considered its use to be to pre- 

 serve the requisite permanent correct 

 curvature of the flaccid cornea proper. 

 Descemet was a professor in Paris. 



Dobie, William Murray.— An English anat- 

 omist and physician of the nineteenth 

 century. The thin, dark disc or mem- 

 brane passing transversely through and 

 bisecting the clear zone or stria in a 

 striated muscle-fibre is known as 

 Dobie's lines. 



Douglas, James.— A Scotch obstetric phy- 

 sician and anatomist, born 1675 ; died 

 1741. Douglas's pouch, formed by the 

 peritoneum between the uterus and the 

 rectum is named for this physician. 

 He was a famous teacher of anatomy 

 and surgery in London. Haller was 

 one of his pupils. He wrote a very 

 careful description of the peritoneum 

 in 1730. 



