Re: [HAPS-L] Eponyms, tanning, and breast cancer [not related to each other]

["Carey Carpenter" <cc2b3d@xxxxxxxxx>]

Granted, most students could care less about Falloppio, until they learn a bit about him.


He was the first to accurately describe the tubes leading from the ovary to the uterus (the "trumpets of the uterus" as he called them). They were subsequently named the "Fallopian tubes" in his honor, although he failed to grasp their function. He asserted the existence of the hymen in virgins, was first on record to formally describe the clitoris, coined the word vagina, and disproved the popular notion that the penis entered the uterus during intercourse. He also developed a linen sheath for use in preventing transmission of syphilis. In reporting the results of perhaps the first clinical trial of condom efficacy Falloppio proclaimed: "I tried the experiment [the use of condoms] on 1,100 men, and I call immortal God to witness that not one of them was infected."  


His contraceptive was held on by a pink ribbon so that it would appeal to women. 


Sources:  es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Catalog/Files/fallopio.html, www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/2288.html and www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/F/Fallopius/1.html







On 11/17/06, Michael Pollock <MPollock@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



....I don't think students much care about Gabriele Falloppio...


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