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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

MECKEL, THE ELDER, Johann Friedrich (1724 – 1774)

1724 – 1774

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1748

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Tractatus anatomico-physiologicus de quinto pare nervorum cerebri.

MECKEL, THE ELDER, Johann Friedrich (1724 – 1774)

Meckel’s graduation thesis contains the first really detailed account of the trigeminal nerve’s distribution (along with a meticulous treatment of the earlier literature), and in it he describes for the first time the…