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the Materia Medica." The well-defined 

 transverse ridge in the sternum, at the 

 junction of the manubrium and gladio- 

 lus, termed the angle of Ludovici, is 

 supposed to be named for this physi- 

 cian. This is sometimes styled Louis' 

 angle. 



Ludwig, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm. — A Ger- 

 man physiologist, born at Witzenhau- 

 sen in 1816; died 1895. He was pro- 

 fessor of physiology successively at 

 Marburg, Ziirich, Vienna, and Leipsic. 

 Ludwig's ganglion on the cardiac plex- 

 us is named for him. 



Luschka, Hubert von. — A German anato- 

 mist, born in Constance, 1820; died at 

 Tubingen, 1875. Luschka's cartilage in 

 the vocal cord, also Luschka's gland, or 

 the coccygeal gland, which he discov- 

 ered, are named for him. 



Luys, Jules Bernard.— A French anatomist 

 and physician, born in 1828. The 

 nucleus pedunculi cerebri is named after 

 this physician, — Luys' body. 



McBurney, Charles. — An American sur- 

 geon, born 1845. The name McBurney's 

 point is for this surgeon, who described 

 it as follows : A point on a line be- 

 tween the anterior superior iliac spine 

 and the umbilicus, situated two-and-a- 

 half inches from the former. This 

 point is noted as marking the region of 

 greatest tenderness in many cases of 

 appendicitis. 



Magendie, Francois. — A French surgeon 

 and physiologist, born at Bordeaux in 

 1783 ; died in Paris, 1855. A small open- 



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