MECKEL, (JOHANN FRIEDRICH)

Dissertation Anatomico-Physiologique sur la préparation des liquides sécrétoires du corps humain par la résorption, & sur les diverses & considérables utilités qui en résultent.

(Berlin, C.F. Voss, 1772). 4to. Without wrappers as issued in "Nouveaux Memoires de L'Academie Royales des Sciences et Belles- Lettres", Année 1770, pp. 19-50.

Meckel devoted much of his time to the study of anatomy and was the first to describe the submandibular ganglion. He also made important studies of the nerve supply of the face and the terminal visceral branches of the veins and lymphatics. (Heirs of Hippocrates).

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