With dissections by Henry Gray, lecturer on anatomy, and H. V. Carter, demonstrator of anatomy at Saint George's Hospital, London, Gray's Anatomy quickly became a standard text for medical students. It first appeared in the U.S. in 1859 and became…
Anatomists throughout history have worked to discover new angles of approach to the human body in order to reach the fullest understanding of its complexities. In this symposium, our four speakers endeavor to do the same, coming from different…
This is one of the several hundred original drawings produced by H. F. Aitken and eventually published in Warren's handbook. The text accompanying this illustration states, "The side of the skull has been cut away; the brain has been removed leaving…
The Harvard Medical School student in the 1890s attended anatomy lectures four times each week, with additional hours devoted to practical anatomical dissection. Ralph C. Larrabee, who received a medical degree from Harvard in 1897, preserved his…
After Astley Cooper's A treatise on dislocations and fractures of the joints (A New Edition, Much Enlarged, 1842), page 351, and Fractures of the bones of the extremities by the same author, plate 29
After J. B. D. Demeaux's Recherches sur l'evolution du sac herniaire suivies de considerations chirurgicales sur les complications auxelles il pent donner lieu, plate 3
After J. B. D. Demeaux's Recherches sur l'evolution du sac herniaire suivies de considerations chirurgicales sur les complications auxelles il pent donner lieu, plate 7
After J. Shaw's Engravings illustrative of a work on the nature and treatment of the distortions to which the spine and the bones of the chest are subject, plate 1, figure 6
After John Shaw's Engravings illustrative of a work on the nature and treatment of the distortions to which the spine and the bones of the chest are subject, plate 1, figure 5
Probably after Vincent Duval's Traite pratique du pied-bot, Charles Phillips's Die subcutane Durchschneidung der Sehnen, oder, Die Operationen, welche zur Heilung der Klumpf
After Vincent Duval's Traite pratique du pied-bot, Charles Phillips's Die subcutane Durchschneidung der Sehnen, oder, Die Operationen, welche zur Heilung der Klumpf
After Astley Cooper's A treatise on dislocations and fractures of the joints (A New Edition, Much Enlarged, 1842), pages 139, 146, 148, 134, 147, and 150
After Vincent Duval's Traite pratique du pied-bot, page 24, and Jean Marc Baptiste Bourgery's Traite complet de l'anatomie de l'homme, plates H, J, and L