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Ribes, Francois, — A French physician, 

 born 1800; died 1864. The ganglion 

 of Ribes, — the existence of which is 

 denied — located in the sympathetic sys- 

 tem, is named for this physician. He 

 was a professor at Montpellier. 



Riolan, Jean, Jr. — A French anatomist, 

 born 1577; died 1657. He was a volum- 

 inous writer, his works being published 

 in the Latin language. Riolan's bouquet 

 is a term for the mass of muscles and 

 ligaments attached to the styloid pro- 

 cess. His name is preserved also in 

 the arched transverse mesocolon, and 

 Riolan's muscle, — that portion of the 

 orbicularis palpebrarum which passes 

 among the roots of the eyelashes. 



Rivinus, August Quirin. — A German phy- 

 sician, born 1652, or 1676 (?); died 1723 

 (Mayne). (Bachmann is his German 

 name). He is accredited as the dis- 

 coverer of the duct of the sublingual 

 gland, — ducts of Rivinus — there being 

 eight to twenty in number. This dis- 

 covery has also been claimed for Cas- 

 per Bartholin, Jr. The name Rivhius 

 is also associated with some other anat- 

 omical structures. 



Robin, Charles Philippe, — A French his- 

 tologist, born 1821 ; died 1885. The 

 polar bodies of Robin in the ovum are 

 named for him. He was the founder 

 of histology in France, and one of the 

 editors of Littre's famous medical en- 

 cyclopaedia. 



Rolando, Luigi. — An Italian anatomist, 

 born in Piedmont in 1773; died in 1831. 

 The name of Rolando is perpetuated in 



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