Extract, 'An excretory duct from the glandula renalis. Extracted from the Giornale di Literati of Venice, for the year 1719' by unknown author Short extract from the 'Giornale di Literati' of Venice for 1719, reporting that the anatomist Anton Maria Valsalva discovered the excretory ducts of the glandulae renales [adrenal glands] and considers them principle organs of generation. Subject: Anatomy Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An excretory duct from the Glandula Renalis. Extracted from the Giornale di Literati of Venice, for the Year 1719'. Read to the Royal Society on 27 February 1723. [1719]