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Historical Bibliography Updated: June 16, 2026

Histologie du pancreas. In Traité d'anatomie humaine, edited by Paul Julien Poirier & Adrien Charpy, vol. 4, pp. 821-831.

Publication Details

Paris: Masson & Cie, 1900 CE.

Laguesse, who in 1893 named the islets of Langerhans, established in this work that the islets of Langerhans were the seat of internal secretion of the pancreas. On figures 425 and 427 he drew that are now called "the beta cells of the islets of Langerhans."

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

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Entry Number#14160
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/16475
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLhistologie-du-pancreas-in-trait-danatomie-humaine-vol-4-pp-821831

Geographic Context

Publication place: Paris