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Bartholin, Thomas

(also T. Bartholinus). Born 1616; died 1680. Danish anatomist. Studied in Copenhagen, Leiden, Padua, and Basel.

Bartholin discovered the thoracic duct and the lymphatic system in humans (1652–54). He refuted the existing notion of the hematopoietic role of the liver. Bartholin’s son Kaspar (1655–1738) was also an anatomist. The duct of the sublingual gland and the glands of the vaginal vestibule are named for Kaspar Bartholin.

WORKS

De lacteis thoracicis in homine brutisgue .... Copenhagen, 1652.
Vasa lymphatica .... Copenhagen, 1653.
De anatome practica. Copenhagen, 1674.

REFERENCE

Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Änte aller Zeiten und Volker, 2nd ed., vol. 1. Berlin-Vienna, 1929. Page 358.

References in periodicals archive

Morten Fink-Jensen's introductory chapter, "Thomas Bartholin and the Anatomy House at the University of Copenhagen," for example, explains the University of Copenhagen's rise to prominence as a center of medical education and Bartholin's impact as dean of the medical faculty and scientific author.

Thomas Bartholin, The Anatomy House in Copenhagen, edited by Niels W. Bruun

Probably, parallel to his discovery, the Danish Thomas Bartholin made the same observations, and much dispute arose.

Outstanding discoveries made by medical students

(27) For the Latin versions, see Thomas Bartholin, Antiquitatum Danicarum de causis contempts a Danis adhucgentilibus mortis (Hafnia, 1689), pp.

Gothic Gothicism: Norse terror in the late eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries

Interstitial hernias were first described in 1661 by the Danish physician Thomas Bartholin (1), but it was not until 1797 that Jean Petit first defined this hernia anatomically.

Laparoscopic repair of a large interstitially incarcerated inguinal hernia

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