Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2139

JOHNSON SYMINGTON (1851-1924) The topographical anatomy of the child. Baillière, Tindall & Cox 1887 [2] 75 pp., 14 col. plates (2 fold.), 33 illus. 43 cm.

Symington, lecturer in anatomy at Edinburgh and later professor of anatomy at Queen's College in Belfast, won a gold medal in 1885 for the present work which was submitted as his thesis for a medical degree at Edinburgh. The illustrations, based on drawings made by Symington, were made from frozen sections prepared by the author. The plates introduce "the novelty of key-figures, showing the lines along which the sections were taken" (Choulant-Frank, p. 409). The title page of the University of Iowa Libraries' copy bears three presentation inscriptions beginning with that of Symington and ending nearly seventy-five years later when the book was presented to the Middlesex Hospital Medical School.

Cited references: Choulant-Frank, p. 409

Gift of John Martin, M.D.