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Duverney, Joseph Guichard — A French 

 physician, born 1648; died 1730. Duver- 

 ney's gland is a synonym for Bartho- 

 lin's gland. He was professor of anat- 

 omy at Paris, and was the first to de- 

 scribe diseases of the ear in accordance 

 with their anatomical seat. 



Dubois. — See Sylvius. 



Doyere, . — A French anatomist of the 



nineteenth century. The small conical 

 eminence at the point where the cylin- 

 der axis of a nerve filament penetrates 

 the sarcolemma of a muscular fibre to 

 form a motorial end-plate is known as 

 Doyer's papilla. 



Dulaurens, Andre. — A French anatomist, 

 born 1558; died 1609. He resided at 

 Montpellier, and later at Paris, where 

 he was physician-in-ordinary to Henry 

 IV. He wrote a work on anatomy en- 

 titled, " Historia anatomica humani 

 corporis." He was loyal to his king, 

 of whom he declared that he had cured 

 fifteen hundred scrofulous persons by 

 laying his hands upon them ! 



Ecker, Alexander. — A German anatomist 

 of the nineteenth century. The occipital 

 transverse fissure, on the dorsal surface 

 of the occipital lobe of the brain, a 

 part of the paroccipital fissure, is named 

 for this anatomist, — Ecker's fissure. 



Ehrenritter. — Ehrenritter, about the year 

 i775j was prosector for Barth, who 

 wrote a treatise on the muscles, and 

 described the tympanic nerve and jugu- 

 lar ganglion of the glossopharyngeal 

 nerve. This ganglion — the jugular — 



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