Note 11 — Chapter VIII

It has often been stated that Lorenz Gasser was the discoverer of the nodal swelling of the trigeminal nerve which bears the name of “Gasserian ganglion.” Hyrtl, however, declares that the credit for this discovery belongs to A. R. B. Hirsch, a Viennese anatomist, who named it in honor of his teacher, Lorenz Gasser, Professor of Anatomy in the University of Vienna.—A. H. B.