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land of Fiihnen, in 1679 (Mayne) ; 1669 

 (Baas) ; died 1760, in Paris. Is best 

 known by the foramen of Winslow — the 

 narrow opening of communication be- 

 tween the greater and lesser cavities of 

 the peritoneum, — named for this anat- 

 omist. He wrote a textbook on anat- 

 omy, which passed through several 

 editions, and was translated into sev- 

 eral languages. While of Danish birth, 

 he became a professor in Paris, where 

 he remained until his death. He was, 

 probably, the ablest anatomist of the 

 eighteenth centurj\ 



"Wirsung, John George. — A Bavarian phy- 

 siologist, born — ; died 1643. His 

 name is associated with the excretory 

 duct of the pancreas, — canal of Wir- 

 sung. He was professor of anatomy 

 at Padua. He claimed to have dis- 

 covered the duct in 1642. His pupil, 

 John IMaurice Hoffman, claimed that 

 he found the duct in the fowl in 1642, 

 and pointed it out to Wirsung, who then 

 described the duct in man as his own 

 discovery; but there is no satisfactory 

 evidence of this. Some years after 

 this event, Wirsung was shot as he 

 was entering his house at night. The 

 legend states that a quarrel about the 

 discovery of the duct was the cause 

 of the murder, but it seems to have 

 been the result of some private 

 grudge. 



Wolff. Casper Friedrich.— A Russian anat- 

 omist, born 1735 (Mayne) ; 1733 

 (Park) ; died 1794. The Wolffian bodies 

 and ducts are named for him. They 



