Niccolò Massa

What the film says

• Not named in the narration: the film dates the first plain description of the prostate to Venice in 1536, which is Massa's Liber introductorius anatomiae.

  Watch 48:21 in the film IX. The Gland That Stands Before

On the timeline

• 1536: Niccolò Massa, in Venice, gives the first plain description of the prostate in his Liber introductorius anatomiae. timeline

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