19 Facts About Gabriele Falloppio

Gabriele Falloppio was an Italian priest and anatomist often known by his Latin name Fallopius.

Gabriele Falloppio was one of the most important anatomists and physicians of the sixteenth century, giving his name to the fallopian tube.

Gabriele Falloppio's father died early but thanks to the support of affluent relatives he enjoyed a thorough humanist education in Modena, learning Latin and Greek and moving in the local circle of humanist scholars.

Gabriele Falloppio was for some years in the service of the Church, among others as a kind of warden at Modena's cathedral, but soon turned to medicine.

Gabriele Falloppio taught on medicinal plants in Ferrara but was not professor of anatomy there, as has sometimes been claimed.

Gabriele Falloppio was never a personal student of Andreas Vesalius as is often falsely maintained.

Gabriele Falloppio ran an extensive medical and surgical practice and took his students with him so they could learn from him.

Gabriele Falloppio added much to what was known before about the internal ear and described in detail the tympanum and its relations to the osseous ring in which it is situated.

Gabriele Falloppio described minutely the circular and oval windows and their communication with the vestibule and cochlea.

Gabriele Falloppio was the first to point out the connection between the mastoid cells and the middle ear.

Gabriele Falloppio's description of the lacrimal ducts in the eye was a marked advance on those of his predecessors and he gave a detailed account of the ethmoid bone and its cells in the nose.

Gabriele Falloppio described the Fallopian hiatus, an opening in the anterosuperior part of the petrosal bone.

Gabriele Falloppio discovered, among others, the muscle that lifts the upper eyelid.

Gabriele Falloppio was the first to describe the ileocecal valve, which prevents a reflux of fecal matter from the colon to the small intestines, and demonstrated its function to his students.

Gabriele Falloppio was the first to identify the vessels in the abdomen which were later called lacteals because of their milky appearance after meals.

Gabriele Falloppio was the first to use an aural speculum for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the ear, and his writings on surgical subjects are still of interest.

Gabriele Falloppio lectured extensively on mineral waters and their medicinal qualities and presented the results of his chemical analysis of the waters from various springs by means of distilliation.

Gabriele Falloppio argued against Fracastor's theory of fossils, as described as follows in Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology:.

Various anatomical structures were described by Gabriele Falloppio, including fallopian tube, Fallopian canal, and Fallopian ligament.