Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) of vascular corrosion casts (microvascular corrosion casting/SEM method) is a standard method, which allows three-dimensional visualization with good resolution of the normal and abnormal microvessels, including the capillaries of various organs and tissues. SEM of vascular corrosion casts can obtain qualitative as well as quantitative informations important t...

Early anatomists referred to parts of the brain as 'posterior' and 'anterior.' But after comparing many primate brains, Gratiolet noticed a pattern of folds or sulci and convolutions marked by fissures of increasing complexity in the more advanced mammalian brains. The primary fissures he could also identify in the smoother ape brains. He was the first to separate four brain lobes (frontal, par...

Muscle variants are routinely encountered in the dissection laboratory and in clinical practice and therefore anatomists and clinicians need to be aware of their existence. Here we describe two different accessory muscles identified while performing educational dissection of a 51-year-old male cadaver. Tensor fasciae suralis, a rare muscle variant, was identified bilaterally and accessory flexo...

Structural anomalies of the styloid chain were described more than 300 years ago by anatomists. In 1937, the American otolaryngologist Watt W. Eagle wrote a series of reports on this subject and its clinical significance. Because of his interest, the symptoms related to the anomalies of the stylohyoid chain became known as Eagle’s syndrome. Eagle himself acknowledged 3 other surgeons who identi...

Variant muscles while of fundamental concern to the anatomists have primarily of academic interest to the surgeon. Muscular variations are quite common and frequently seen in the course of routine dissection of human body. The variations in the muscles may be conveniently grouped as progressive, retrogressive and atavistic [1]. The manner in which a disappeared muscle can put in an abrupt appea...

The survey of laboratories in 1970-72 was continued by a questionnaire to members of the Association of Clinical Pathologists covering the next two years. Hepatitis B accounted for 14 of the 32 cases reported from 28 laboratories. A moderate excess of laboratories reporting hepatitis tested speciments from transplant units. The average attack rate for staff of all types was 143 per 100 000 with...

Anatomy, Systematic and Practical, including Embryology. Originally written by the late A. M. Buchanan, m.a., m.d., c.m., p.r.p.p.s. (Glasg.), Prof, of Anatomy in The Anderson'College of Medicine, Glasgow. Fourth Edition. Edited by a Committee of Anatomists in London. With 667 illustrations, mostly original and in colours. London. Bailliere, Tindall and Cox. 1919. (30s. net.). A feature; of thi...

The purpose of this historical review is to add new elements to the international literature in relation to the birth and progress of the science of anatomy in modern Greece. Step by step, it outlines the efforts of prominent Greek anatomists to establish the course of the basic science of anatomy in the newly founded Medical School, the laborious effort to collect cadaveric material to compile...

the second the work of four anatomists is discussed in turn: M. Hurtado de Mendoza (1780 or 85-1849), A. Zuriaga y Clemente (1814-1866), L. Boscasa e Ignal (17861857), and M. Lopez Mateos (1802-1863). None of these is known outside Spain, but they nevertheless contributed importantly to the advancement of Spanish anatomy by teaching and research. This scholarly study makes better known the stat...

“The nature of the body is beginning medical science”-Hippocrates. From chosen Dhanvantri ancient India to Imhotep Egypt, Huangdi China, disease was seen as a combination supernatural and natural medicine focused on healing soul body. While practices have changed drastically since establishment first organized medieval school Schola Medica Salernitana in Italy, what remains unchanged importance...