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Santorini, Giovanni Domenico. — A Vene- 

 tian anatomist, born 1681 ; died 1737. 

 He described the corpuscula Santorini 

 of the larynx, and his name is asso- 

 ciated with several other anatomical 

 parts. The risorius is named the 

 muscle of Santorini. He was a pro- 

 fessor in Venice. A number of his 

 anatomical plates were published a 

 quarter of a century after his death. 



Scarpa, Antonio. — An Italian anatomist 

 and surgeon, born at Motta in 1747 

 (Mayne) ; died at Pavia in 1832. The 

 year of his birth is given differently 

 by nearly every biographer, some mak- 

 ing it 1748, others 1750. Richardson, 

 for good reasons, prefers 1746. Proba- 

 bly best known by the triangle named 

 after him. He did a great work in 

 dissection of the internal ear, and the 

 endolymph is also named for him, as 

 well as a number of other tissues. Up 

 to his sixty-sixth year, Scarpa con- 

 tinued to hold the Chair of Anatomy 

 at Pavia. In his last years, he who 

 helped to restore so many to sight tem- 

 porarily lost, himself became blind. 



Schneider, Conrad Victor. — A Saxon anat- 

 omist, born 1610 (Mayne) ; 1614 

 {Baas) ; died 1680. The Schneiderian 

 membrane is named for him. He dem- 

 onstrated anatomically and clinically, 

 that it was not the brain, but the mu- 

 cous membrane which secreted the 

 mucus discharged in disease, — an ex- 

 planation which now seems so simple 

 to us, and yet upset the whole doctrine 

 of the Ancients, who believed the con- 



