Whereas John Hunter (1728-93) the anatomist, zoologist, physiologist, pathologist and museum collector receives unceasing eulogy, his work as a practising surgeon is curiously neglected. As far as can be determined, there are no studies devoted to his instruments and operative technique before a personal investigation in 1991, perhaps for the good reason that these would prove inconclusive. Nev...

Hans Elias (1907 to 1985) was an anatomist, an educator, a mathematician, a cinematographer, a painter, and a sculptor. Above all, he was a German of Jewish descent, who had to leave his home country because of the policies of the National Socialist (NS) regime. He spent his life in exile, first in Italy and then in the United States. His biography is exemplary for a generation of younger expat...

Historical sources can serve as an important point of reference for anatomical research. In this report, we present atypical origin the brachioradial artery from distal fourth arm. The radial recurrent originated ulno-interosseous trunk and crossed posteriorly at level neck radius. This case reported herein was observed during a review historical specimens collection prepared in 19th century by...

anatomist, but a doctor interested in the changes caused by disease in organs, to thus establish the cause of death. He was, therefore, the perfect representative of doctors of the time, attempting to apply scientific method (based on ‘causal knowledge’) to the interpretation of illness. Dr Tulp’s dissections (nearly always on the corpses of those sentenced to death) brought together followers ...

In this paper, we propose a generalized scheme for the symbolic description of the spatial attributes of anatomical entities. The power of the scheme lies in the ability to model the spatial objects at the highest level of granularity: information can be obtained at the desired level of detail needed for a given application. This scheme uses the topological classes of point, line, surface, and ...

Although Spalding is incisive about such institutional developments and clear about the college's response to such major national changes in medical education as the impact of the 1910 Flexner report, he often overlooks opportunities to underscore the distinctively southern character of the education at MCG. For example, although he remarks upon the many kinship ties that joined generations of ...

THE REPUTATION of Charles Collignon, Professor of Anatomy at Cambridge from 1753 to 1785, has suffered at the hands of most of those few historians who have considered him worthy of mention. Winstanley1 said that he did not know enough about anatomy to teach it effectively, and that he had a practice in the town. He quoted the Reverend William Cole, who described Collignon as "a third rate prac...

This paper describes a development cycle for the engineering of large knowledge bases: A graphical tool is used for editing and the content is transformed into a logic-based representation language. This representation is used to check the consistency of the knowledge base as well as to facilitate the reviewing process. Showing the usefulness of this approach, aspects of the Digital Anatomist F...

BACKGROUND The optimal learning environment for gross anatomy is the dissection laboratory. The Prof-in-a-Box (PiB) system has been developed where an anatomist using distance-learning technologies 'helps' students in a dissection laboratory at a different site. METHODS The PiB system consists of: (1) an anatomist in his/her office with a computer and video camera; (2) a computer and 2 video ...