van Gijn Jan, Gijselhart Joost P
Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2011;155(51):A3639.
Gabriele Falloppio (1523-1562) was initially educated as a priest in his native Modena, Italy. He subsequently became a physician and professor of anatomy in Pisa, and later in Padua on the post Vesalius (1515-1564) had occupied not long before him. In 1561, Falloppius published a collection of anatomical observations to supplement, and sometimes correct, Vesalius' great De humani corporis fabrica libri septem of 1543. Among Falloppius' observations was a description of the female 'semen-conveying ducts', as they were then called, in which he emphasized their gradual widening towards the female 'testes', to which they were only loosely attached by fringe (fimbriae) or 'shreds of worn clothes'. When this fringe was folded back, the resulting opening resembled that of a brazen trumpet (tuba). Vesalius published a courteous riposte in which he still denied the existence of such an opening. The tubes Falloppius had described were eventually named after him.
加布里埃莱·法洛皮奥（1523 - 1562）最初在他的家乡意大利摩德纳接受牧师教育。随后，他成为了一名医生，并在比萨担任解剖学教授，后来又在帕多瓦任教，就在不久前维萨里（1515 - 1564）曾在该职位任职。1561年，法洛皮奥发表了一系列解剖学观察结果，以补充并有时纠正维萨里1543年出版的伟大著作《人体的构造》。在法洛皮奥的观察结果中，有对当时被称为女性“输精管道”的描述，他强调这些管道朝着女性 “睾丸” 逐渐变宽，它们仅通过边缘（伞毛）或 “破旧衣服的碎片” 与女性 “睾丸” 松散相连。当这个边缘折回时，形成的开口类似于喇叭（大号）的开口。维萨里发表了一篇礼貌的回应文章，他仍然否认存在这样的开口。法洛皮奥所描述的管道最终以他的名字命名。
