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WIRSUNG, Johann Georg (1589 – 1643)

WIRSUNG, Johann Georg (1589 – 1643)

1589 – 1643

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1642 CE

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Figura ductus cuiusdam cum multiplicibus suis ramulis noviter in pancreate in diversis corporibus humanis observati.

Wirsung, assistant to the celebrated German anatomist Johann Vesling, discovered the excretory duct of the pancreas named for him in 1642. To announce his discovery, Wirsung chose the extremely unusual method of publi…