Lectures on anatomy by Professor Ellis
Publisher Information: London: 1858.
Ellis, George Viner (1812-1900). Lectures on anatomy by Professor Ellis University College London. Manuscript notes and drawings by Thomas Fould H. Green. 6-page index, 318 numbered pages and 4 unnumbered pages at the end. London, 1854-1858. 253 x 203 mm. Original half sheep, marbled boards, rubbed, lower spine chipped. Very good. Bookplate and stamp of the Birmingham Medical Institute.
Ellis was professor of anatomy at University College, London from 1850 to 1877. He was one of the most prominent and respected anatomists of his time, and during his tenure University College became known as the pre-eminent center in England for the study of anatomy. Ellis is best known for his Illustrations of Dissections in a Series of Original Coloured Plates (1867), a large folio atlas of 58 chromolithographed plates remarkable for their accuracy, clarity and aesthetic value; they reflected the method of dissection that Ellis taught at University College. He also published Demonstrations of Anatomy: Being a Guide to the Knowledge of the Human Body by Dissections (1840), which became a standard textbook in England and the United States.
The present notebook contains a clear and neatly written record of Ellis’s anatomy lectures given between October 1, 1854 and March 22, 1858. The lectures cover the anatomy of the skeleton, muscles and ligaments, arteries, sense organs, nervous system and genito-urinary system; several are illustrated with ink or pencil sketches. Although the notebook is unsigned, it is in the hand of Thomas F. H. Green, a medical student at University College who won certificates of honor in anatomy and pathological anatomy in 1858 (see the Medical Times and Gazette for August 7, 1858, page 152); we have compared the handwriting in this notebook to that in notebooks signed by Green.
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