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ASELLI, Gaspare (1581 – 1626)

ASELLI, Gaspare (1581 – 1626)

1581 – 1626

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Bibliothèque nationale de France · Public domain

1627 CE

#1094

De lactibus sive lacteis venis.

Records the discovery of the lacteal vessels. While performing vivisection on a dog that had recently fed, Aselli noticed a network of vessels in the mesentery and along the peritoneal surface of the intestine. The ve…