Jacob Winslow

Jacob Winslow.

Jacob Winslow (also: Jacob Benignus Winsløw or Jacques-Bénigne Winslow ; born April 2 or April 17, 1669 in Odense , † April 3, 1760 in Paris ) was a Danish anatomist who worked in France .

Jacob Winslow was born the son of a clergyman on the island of Funen and studied theology in Copenhagen from 1687 , but then soon switched to studying medicine. He became a prosector of anatomy and trained in this function in Holland, among others with Frederik Ruysch , and Paris.

Winslow was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. In 1707 he was elected to the Académie des Sciences and appointed professor of anatomy. From 1723 he was a foreign member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences .

In 1721 he succeeded Joseph Guichard Duverney (1648-1730) at the Jardin du Roi . From 1743 to 1758 Winslow was an anatomy professor at the Jardin du Roi.

Works

• Observations on the fibers of the coeur et on the valvules avec la manière de le preparer pour le démontrer. 1711.
• Description d'une valvule singulière de la veine cave et nouveau sentiment sur la fameuse question du trou ovale. 1717.
• Éclaircissements sur la calculation you sang dans le fetus. 1725.
• Sur les mouvements de la tête, du col et du reste de l'épine du dos. 1730.
• Exposition anatomique de la structure du corps humain. 3 volumes. Paris, Guillaume Desprez et Jean Desseartz, 1732. 4 volumes, 1766. Amsterdam, 3 volumes, 1732, 1743. 4 volumes, 1752, 1754.
• Quaestio medico-chirurgica ... an mortis incertae signa minus incerta a chirurgicis, quam ab aliis experimentis.
• Opusculi anatomici. His collected anatomical works. Bologna, 1744.

literature

• Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Winsløw, Jacob (Jacques-Bénigne). In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1500.

Web links

• Kevin Knight (New Advent): Jakob Benignus Winslow