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the spaces of Fontana being named for 

 him. He was celebrated as an artist 

 in anatomical preparations in wax. 



Galen, Claudius. — A celebrated physician, 

 born at Pergamos, in Mysia, in 131. 

 The time and place of his death are 

 uncertain ; it took place at Rome, at 

 Pergamos, or in Sicily, according to 

 various authors, at some time between 

 the years 201 and 210. His name is 

 modestly perpetuated in anatomy by 

 the' venae Galeni, of the cerebellar 

 veins. He contributed a work on an- 

 atomy, based on his practical knowl- 

 edge derived from the study of two 

 human skeletons, and the soft parts of 

 inferior animals. This work was the 

 recognized textbook on anatomy until 

 the time of Vesalius, in 1543. 



Gasser, Johann Laurentius. — An anatomist 

 of the eighteenth century, of whom 

 nothing is known save that he was the 

 instructor of Antonius Raymond Baltha- 

 sar Hirsch, who, in 1765, named the 

 ganglion on the sensory trunk of the 

 fifth pair of nerves after him. (See 

 Casserio). 



Gavard, Hyacinthe.— A French anatomist, 

 born 1753 ; died 1802. The oblique layer 

 of involuntary muscular fibres in the 

 stomach i? known as Gavard's muscle. 



Gerlach, Joseph von.— A German anatomist, 

 born 1820. The minute filamentous net- 

 work producd by the branching of the 

 processes of the ganglion cells of the 

 central nervous system are named for 

 this anatomist, — Gerlach's nerve-net- 

 work. 



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