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  • Title: [Investigations on knowledge of the pancreas before Vesal, with special regard to the anatomical technique in the 16th and 17th century (author's transl)].
    Author: Dittrich HM, von Dorsche HH.
    Journal: Anat Anz; 1977; 142(3):145-50. PubMed ID: 341748.
    Abstract:
    In the centuries before Vesal is the pancreas described. The name "pancreas" is created by Galenos (1565). This organ has after Galenos (1565) a function of cushion. The supposition that the pancreas is a gland is created by Berengario da Carpi (1521). The technique of the anatomical section is the basis on knowledge of VESAL. He has created many instruments.
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