Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2091

EDOUARD VAN BENEDEN (1846-1910) Contributions à l'histoire de la vésicule germinative et du premier noyau embryonnaire. F. Hayez 1876 50 pp., fold. col. plate. 22.2 cm.

After Baer's important work in the early nineteenth century (see No. 1493), there was a rapid increase in the histological studies within embryology, brought about in large part because of improvements to the microscope. Benefiting from these major advances, Beneden, a Belgian zoologist at Louvain and later at Liège, first described the early phases of segmentation and growth of the mammalian ovum in 1875. The following year he discovered the centrosome independently of Walther Flemming (1843-1905). In this paper he describes the centrosome, a special condensed area of the cytoplasm which contains the two centrioles of the mammalian ovum and plays a key role in mitosis. This offprint was prepared from the original article, which was first published in Volume LXI of the Bulletins de l'Académie royale de Belgique in January, 1876.

See Related Record(s): 1493

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 497

Gift of John Martin, M.D.