CI)t ^orlti'6 Enatomifitfi 



Gimbernat, Don Antonio de. — A Spanish 

 surgeon at the close of the i8th cen- 

 tury. The portion of the aponeurosis 

 which is reflected from Poupart's liga- 

 ment at the spine of the os pubis along 

 the pectineal^ line is named for this 

 surgeon, — Gimbernat's .ligament."'* He 

 was a professor in Barcelona from 1762 

 to 1774, and afterward lived in Madrid. 

 He was distinguished ^ a surgeon and 

 anatomist, especially as a herniologist. 



Giraldes, Cardozo Cazado Joachim Albin. 

 6.^ — A French surgeon of Portugese ex- 



traction, born at Genes in 1808; died in, 

 Paris in 1875. The organ of Giraldes 

 — the three or more small irregular 

 masses situated in front of the sper- 

 matic cord, just above the head of the 

 epididymus, — are named for him. 



Glaser, Johann Heinrich. — A Swiss anat- 

 ^,., Ofriistr born at Basel in 1629; died in 

 1675. The Glaserian fissure is named 

 for this anatomist. It is a narrow slit 

 which divides the glenoid fossa into two 

 parts. It extends into the tympanum, 

 opening into its outer wall, lodges the 

 processus gracilis of the malleus, and 

 transmits the laxator tympani muscle 

 and the tympanic branch of the internal 

 maxillary artery. (Mayne). 



Glisson, Francis G. — An English physician, 

 born at Rampisham, in Dorset, in 1596; 

 died at Colchester in 1677 (Mayne) ; 

 (b. 1597; d. 1677, Foster); (b. 1597; d- 

 1671, Baas). Glisson's name is preserved 

 in the capsule of the liver named for 

 him, — the cellulo-vascular membrane 

 enveloping the hepatic vessels. He v.as 



