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Extract, 'An excretory duct from the glandula renalis. Extracted from the Giornale di Literati of Venice, for the year 1719' by unknown author

Reference number: CLP/12ii/16

Date: 1719

Description

Short extract from the 'Giornale di Literati' of Venice for 1719, reporting that the anatomist Anton Maria Valsalva discovered the excretory ducts of the glandulae renales [adrenal glands] and considers them principle organs of generation.

Subject: Anatomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An excretory duct from the Glandula Renalis. Extracted from the Giornale di Literati of Venice, for the Year 1719'.

Read to the Royal Society on 27 February 1723.

Reference number
CLP/12ii/16
Earliest possible date
1719
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Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
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Manuscript

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Extract, 'An excretory duct from the glandula renalis. Extracted from the Giornale di Literati of Venice, for the year 1719' by unknown author, 1719, CLP/12ii/16, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_12ii_16/extract-an-excretory-duct-from-the-glandula-renalis-extracted-from-the-giornale-di-literati-of-venice-for-the-year-1719-by-unknown-author, accessed on 22 June 2025

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