Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1499

WILLIAM EDMONDS HORNER (1793-1853) A treatise on special and general anatomy. H. C. Carey & I. Lea 1826 Vol. I: xlvi, 491 pp.; Vol. II: [2] 524 pp. 21.1 cm.

A native of Warrenton, Virginia, Horner studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania where he was graduated in 1814. He eventually settled in Philadelphia and became a member of the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania's medical school. In 1831 he succeeded Philip Syng Physick (see No. 1222) as professor of anatomy and was elected head of the department. He was later appointed dean of the medical school, a post he held for more than thirty years. In addition to the present work, Horner was the author of two other monographs, one of which was the first treatise on pathological anatomy written in the United States. He made several advances in anatomy including the discovery of the tensor tarsi (muscle of Horner), a muscle in the lachrymal apparatus. The present treatise on anatomy, designed chiefly for the medical student, was later supplemented by Goddard's Plates of the arteries (see No. 1760).

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