WHO DISCOVERED THE LYMPHATIC SYSTEM?

Abstract

The 17th century saw several emerging and almost simultaneous discoveries in the fieldof lymphology by Asselli, Pecquet, Bartholin and possibly Joliffe. However, Olof Rudbeck(1630-1708) of Sweden, a true scientific genius, who mastered botany, chemistry, physics,mathematics, astronomy, music, drawing, architecture and engineering, and became theRector of the Faculty of Upsala, was probably the first anatomist to consider correctly thelymphatic circulation as an integrated system of the whole body.