1654 GLISSON, Francis (1597 – 1677)
Anatomia hepatis.
First accurate description of the capsule of the liver (Glisson’s capsule) and its blood-supply. He also described the sphincter of the bile duct (“Glisson’s sphincter”, the sphincter of Oddi). This is the first book …
GMN 972 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/563
1856 BERNARD, Claude (1813 – 1878)
Mémoire sur le pancréas et sur le rôle du sue pancréatique dans les phénomènes digestifs.
The most beautifully illustrated of all Bernard’s writings, which summed up the results of his work on the role of the pancreas in digestion. English translation as Memoir on the pancreas, and on the role of pancreati…
GMN 1000.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/764
1859 SAPPEY, Marie Philibert Constant (1810 – 1896)
Mémoire sur un point d’anatomie pathologique relatif à l’histoire de la cirrhose.
“Sappey’s veins” in the falciform ligament of the liver.
GMN 1002 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/778
1869 LANGERHANS, Paul (1847 – 1888)
Beiträge zur mikroskopischen Anatomie der Bauchspeicheldrüse. Inaugural-Dissertation.
First account of the islets of Langerhans. In 1893 Édouard Laguesse attached the name of Langerhans to the structures. Langerhans did not suggest any function for them. The book was reprinted with an English translati…
GMN 1009 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/821
1876 KUPFFER, Karl Wilhelm von (1829 – 1902)
Ueber Stemzellen der Leber.
“Kupffer cells” – macrophage stellate cells in the lining of the blood channels in the liver. Confocal microscopy picture showing the steady-state location and interactions between Kupffer cells (Red), hepatic stellat…
GMN 552 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/220
1994 GLISSON, Francis (1597 – 1677); CUNNINGHAM, Andrew
English manuscripts of Francis Glisson (1): from Anatomia hepatis (The anatomy of the liver), 1654. Cambridge Wellcome Texts and Documents, no. 3. Edited by Andrew Cunningham.
Publishes for the first time the surviving partial English text of Glisson's book on the liver, and of the work's postscript on the lymphatic system. Glisson wrote in English, but his text was translated into Latin fo…
GMN 11506 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13705
