Johann Friedrich Meckel, the Elder - bibliography
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Biography
German anatomist, born July 31, 1724, Wetzlar; died September 18, 1774, Berlin.
Bibliography
- Tractatus anatomico physiologicus de quinto pare nervorum cerebri. Göttingen 1748.
Meckel's graduation thesis, containing his description of the sphenomaxillary ganglion (Meckel's ganglion) and of the recess in the dura that lodges Gasser's ganglion (Meckel's cave). Meckel was one of Albrecht von Haller's (1708-1777) finest pupils and a commendatory letter from Haller is included at the end of the book.
- Observations anatomique sur un noeud ou ganglion du second rameau de la cinquieme paire des nerfs du cerveau etc.
Histoire et mémoires de l'Académie royale des sciences et des belles-lettres de Berlin.
Mémoires de l’Académie des sciences et belles lettres de Berlin, année 1749.
Translated into Latin. [On the ganglion sphenopalatinum, also called ganglion Meckeli (majus). - Description anatomique des nerfs de la face.
Mémoires de l’Académie des sciences et belles lettres de Berlin, 1751. - Physiologische und anatomische Abhandlungen von ubngewöhnlicher Erweiterung des Herzens und der Spannadern des Angesischts. Berlin, 1755.
- Nova experimenta et observationes de finibus venarum ac vasorum lymphaticorum in ductus viscerages excretoria corp. hum. ejusque structurae utilitate. Berlin, 1772.
- Tractatus de morbo hernioso congenito et complicato feliciter curato. Berlin, 1772.
- Beschreibung der Krankheit des Herrn Leibarztes Zimmermann u. s. w.
Translated from Latin by Ernst Gottfried Baldinger (1738-1804). Berlin, 1772.