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Paper, 'Two newly discover'd arteries in women, going to the ovaria' by Mr [John] Ranby

Reference number: CLP/12ii/32

Date: 1726

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Ranby describes his discovery of arteries that extend from the aorta to the glandula renalis [adrenal gland] and then to the ovaries in women. He had previously written about the same discovery in men, going to the testicles. Ranby supposes that this may be the excretory duct that Anton Maria Valsalva had claimed to have discovered in the same location.

Subject: Anatomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Two newly discover’d arteries in women, going to the ovaria'.

Read to the Royal Society on 24 November 1726.

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CLP/12ii/32
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1726
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2 pages
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John Ranby

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John Ranby, Paper, 'Two newly discover'd arteries in women, going to the ovaria' by Mr [John] Ranby, 1726, CLP/12ii/32, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_12ii_32/paper-two-newly-discoverd-arteries-in-women-going-to-the-ovaria-by-mr-john-ranby, accessed on 13 September 2024

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