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The Alphabet of Anatomical Eponyms 

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Behind each body part named for its discoverer there is a story. 

L is for the Islets of Langerhans

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The islets of Langerhans are named for Paul Langerhans (1847-1888) who, like a number of others in this series, died prematurely due to now preventable illnesses--in his case tuberculosis at the age of forty-one. He was the first to identify the pancreatic cells which produce insulin.



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