[Abraham Vater (1684-1751)].
The 9th of December 1984 is the 300th anniversary of the birthday of the German anatomist Abraham Vater (1684-1751). He was a botanist and professor of medicine in Wittenberg too. There he founded an important collection of anatomical preparations. A. Vater is well known because of the Papilla Vateri (Papilla duodeni major) and the Corpuscula lamellosa, which are named after Abraham Vater and Filippo Pacini (1812-1883).
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Abraham Vater (1684-1751).