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Bellini, Laurentio (1643–1703)| Italian physician. He is remembered for his treatise Gustus organum novissime deprehensum (1665) in which he described the papillae of the tongue as the essential organs of taste. He also discovered and described the straight tubules of the kidney which are named after him. |
| Bellini was born in Florence. At the age of 20 he was made professor of philosophy and theoretical medicine in Pisa, where he taught and practised for 30 years. |
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