Cl)e ^orlU'6 Stnatomifitfii 



to anatomy, particularly by a work 

 upon the ear. Valsalva's method of 

 inflating the middle ear is familiar to 

 all. 

 Varolio, Costanzo. — An Italian physician, 

 born 1543; died 1575. He was profes- 

 sor at Bologna, and ordinary physician 

 of the Pope; also described the pons 

 commissure, crus cerebri, and "the ner- 

 vous system in general. 



Vater, Abraham.— The ampulla of en- 

 trance of the common bile-duct and 

 pancreatic duct is named Vater's am- 

 pulla, for this anatomist. The Pacinian 

 bodies are sometimes known as Vater's 

 corpuscles. (See Pacini). 



Verheyen, Philipp.— A Dutch anatomist, 

 born 1648; died 1710. He was profes- 

 sor of anatomy at Louvain. The stellate 

 network in the cortical renal veins is 

 named for this anatomist, — stellula 

 Verheynii. 



* Vesalius, Andreas. — Was born the last 

 day of the year 1514, in Brussels, and 

 died in a shipwreck on the Island of 

 Zante, October 15, 1564. While Vesa- 

 lius was the " Father of Anatomy," his 

 name is perpetuated in his favorite sub- 

 ject by an insignificant hole in the 

 pterygoid bone, — the foramen of Vesa- 

 lius. It is doubtful if any great and 

 immediate advance in anatomy would 

 have been made in the sixteenth cen- 

 tury unless he had lived and labored. 

 In his twenty-first year he was profes- 

 sor of anatomy in the renowned school 

 of Padua, and in 1543, in his twenty- 

 ninth year, and fourteen years before 



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