findings, a similar discovery of the human lymphatic system was published by Olof Rudbeck in 1653, although Rudbeck had presented his findings at the court of Queen Christina of Sweden in April–May 1652, before Bartholin, but delayed in writing about it until 1653 (after Bartholin). As a result, an intense priority dispute ensued. Niels Stensen or Steno became Bartholin's most famous pupil. Thomas' publication De nivis usu medico observationes variae Chapter XXII, contains the first known mention of refrigeration anaesthesia, a technique whose invention Thomas Bartholin credits to the Italian Marco Aurelio Severino of Naples. According to Bartholin, Severino was the first to present the use of freezing mixtures of snow and ice (1646), and Thomas Bartholin initially learnt about the technique from him during a visit to Naples. Bartholin–Patau syndrome, a congenital syndrome of multiple abnormalities produced by trisomy 13, was first described by Bartholin in 1656. Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Thomas Bartholin's father; his brother Rasmus Bartholin; and his son Caspar Bartholin the Younger (who first described "Bartholin's glands"), all contributed to the practice of modern medicine through their discoveries of important anatomical structures and phenomena. Bartholin the Elder started his tenure as professor at Copenhagen University in 1613, and over the next 125 years, the scientific accomplishments of the Bartholins while serving on the medical faculty of the University of Copenhagen won international acclaim and contributed to the reputation of the institution. Selected works Historiarum anatomicarum rariorum [...] (Case histories of unusual anatomical and clinical structures, including descriptions and illustrations of anomalies and normal structures) , Amsterdam, 1654. . The Hague: Vlacq, 1657. , Copenhagen: P. Haubold, 1661 (with Mantissa anatomica, by Johannes Rodius). De unicornu. Padua, 1645. De Angina Puerorum Campaniae Siciliaeque Epidemica Exercitationes. Paris, 1646. , Copenhagen: M. Martzan, 1652 (Bartholin's discovery of the thoracic duct). Vasa lymphatica nuper Hafniae in animalibus inventa et hepatis exsequiae. Hafniae (Copenhagen), Petrus Hakius, 1653. Vasa lymphatica in homine nuper inventa. Hafniae (Copenhagen), 1654. Historarium anatomicarum rariorum centuria I-VI. Copenhagen, 1654–1661. Anatomia. The Hague. Ex typographia Adriani Vlacq, 1655. Dispensarium hafniense. Copenhagen, 1658. De nivis usu medico observationes variae. Accessit D. Erasmi Bartholini de figura nivis dissertatio. With a book by Rasmus Bartholin. Copenhagen: Typis Matthiase Godichii, sumptibus Petri Haubold, 1661. (Contains the first known mention of refrigeration anaesthesia) Cista medica hafniensis. Copenhagen, 1662. De pulmonum substantia et motu. Copenhagen, 1663. De insolitis partus humani viis. Copenhagen, 1664. De