HENLE, Friedrich Gustav Jakob (1809 – 1885)
1809 – 1885
5 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1837 CE
#539
Symbolae ad anatomiam villorum intestinalium, imprimis eorum epithelii et vasorum lacteorum.
Henle first described the epithelia of the skin and intestines, and defined the structure and function of columnar and ciliated epithelium. He applied the term “epithelium” to all mucous membranes in the b…
1838 CE
#540
Ueber die Ausbreitung des Epithelium im menschlichen Korper.
Henle broadened the scope of his study of epithelium (No. 539) to include the covering layers of the true body cavities.
1840 CE
#2533
Von den Miasmen und Contagien. In his Pathologische Untersuchungen, pp. 1-82.
Bassi’s work on the muscardine disease of silkworms (see No. 2532), with its prophecy of the discovery of microbes as the causal agents of other diseases, inspired Henle to write this famous essay on miasms and …
1841 CE
#543
Allgemeine Anatomie. Lehre von den Mischungs- und Formbestandtheilen des menschlichen Körpers.
Many of the histological discoveries of Henle are described in the above. He classified tissues histologically. In the section on Gefässnerven (pp. 510, 690) Henle demonstrated the presence of smooth muscle in th…
1855 CE–1871 CE
#417
Handbuch der systematischen Anatomie des Menschen. 3 vols.
Considered by many authorities to be the greatest of the 19th-century systems of anatomy. Many structures are named after Henle, including the looped portion of the uriniferous tubules of the kidney, the layer of cell…