Historical curiosities

Listed here, in arbitrary alphabetical order, are several points of potential interest which may be found within various entries on the histological eponyms page.
 

4 basic tissue types Virchow 21 tissue types Bichat Agglomerated granules Bowman Alois Alzheimer Nissl, Brodmann American Civil War Schmidt Amoeba Auerbach Areolar tissue Bichat Author of this website King Body-snatching Schlemm Botanical eponym Zinn "Butterflies of the soul" Cajal Camel red blood cells Boettcher Cancelled eponym Clara Capillaries   Harvey, Malpighi,             Rouget, Waller Cataract surgery Jacob Cells, discovery of Hooke Cellphone Bichat Cell Theory Schwann Cholera vibrio Pacini "Cleavability of the cutis" Langer Copyright law Cowper Crayfish neuroanatomy Freud Cripple Creek Lanterman Cytoskeleton Freud Darwin Bowman Diabetes Brunner Eliza Doolittle Henle Elliot, George (novelist) Bichat Epistaxis Little, Kiesselbach Eponym confusion   Langerhans Langhans Eulogium Schmidt Eye surgery Jacob Father of microscopic       anatomy Malpighi   Father of histology Bichat Father of modern histology      Kölliker Father of modern pathology Virchow First English-language       histology textbook Hassall   Font fantasia Cowper French Revolution Bichat

Garden of the Apothecaries Descemet Gewebelehre Bichat, Kölliker Habilitation Bruch Histology sans microscope      Bichat Histology, word origin Mayer Infectious disease, theory of Henle Insect metamorphosis Swammerdam Kulturkampf Virchow Locke, John (philosopher) Malpighi Lymph vessels Swammerdam Microscope,       development of Hooke, Leeuwenhoek, Lieberkuhn, Köhler Microtome, invention of    Purkinje Middlemarch (novel) Bichat Model train Virchow Modesty Leydig Monads Mayer Muscle fibers Bowman Multi-font title page Cowper Naturphilosophie Mayer Nazi medical crime Clara Neuroanatomy       Betz, Brodmann, Cajal, Deiters, Freud, Golgi, Held, Nissl, Purkinje, Ranvier, Waller Neuron Doctrine Cajal Nobel Prize winners Cajal, Golgi Nosebleeds Little, Kiesselbach Omnis cellula e cellula Virchow Plagiarism Cowper Retinal layers Bowman Royal Society of       London Bowman, Havers, Kölliker Leeuwenhoek, Malpighi Schaffhaus School Brünner, Peyer Spicilegium Kerckring "Tissue" vs. "texture" Bichat Toad-vomiting woman Bartholin Tobacco smoking Kerckring Vaccination Havers Vascular injections Hassall, Bertin, Kupffer Wonder glasses Lieberkühn "Zonule" misuse Zinn Zinnias Zinn

 
Histological eponyms

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