Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1882

GEORGE MURRAY HUMPHRY (1820-1896) A treatise on the human skeleton (including the joints). Macmillan 1858 vi [2] 620 pp., 60 plates (part fold.). 23.7 cm.

Humphry--anatomist, teacher, and surgeon--combined an active surgical practice with an academic career. He was professor of anatomy at Cambridge and later professor of surgery. He contributed widely to the scientific journals of his time and was founder and coeditor of the Journal of anatomy and physiology. This, his major work, was prepared as a working anatomy for the practicing orthopedic surgeon, and his treatment of cartilages and ligaments is especially inventive. The sixty plates with their many figures were drawn on stone by Humphry's wife from preparations made by the author.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 419

Gift of John Martin, M.D.