d)e WoxW& Stnatomtfitfi 



is known as Ehrenritter's, and also 

 ganglion of Johannes Miiller. It is in- 

 constant, and is not described by all 

 authors. (Allen. Baas.) 



Eustacchi, Bartolommeo (Eustachius) — An 

 Italian anatomist, born 1520 (?); died 

 1574. He discovered the Eustachian 

 tube in 1562. He regarded it as adapted 

 to conduct pus, etc., out of the ear. He 

 understood the arrangement of the 

 bones of the ear. He also saw what we 

 call the thoracic duct. The Eustachian 

 tube and the Eustachian valve perpetuate 

 his name. He flourished between Vesa- 

 lius and Fabricius. He prepared some 

 anatomical plates famous for artistic 

 perfection, which were first found and 

 published by Lancisi in the eighteenth 

 century. 



Fabricius, Hieronymus {Jerome) ab Aqua- 



pendente. — An Italian anatomist, born 



1537; died 1619; He was the discoverer 



of the valves in the veins, and was the 



teacher of Harvey. He was also emi- 



' nent as a surgeon, and was the first to 



differentiate goitre from tumors of the 



\ neck. He practiced trepanning ; and 



j hung up the patient by the feet in 



strangulated hernia. How carefully he 



observed may be judged from the fact 



that he knew the cavity of the tympanum 



in the new-born w-as filled with mucus, 



a fact re-discovered in our day. (Baas). 



Fallopio, Gabriel. —An Italian anatomist, 

 born at Modena in 1523, died in 1562. 

 His name is variously written: (Fallop- 

 pio, Gabrielo Ital.), Fallopia, Falloppia, 

 Fallopio, Fallopius, and Falloppius. He 



