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HAVERS, Clopton (1657 – 1702)

HAVERS, Clopton (1657 – 1702)

1657 – 1702

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Clopton Havers · Dobson J, Pioneers of Osteogeny: Clopton Havers, in The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 34/1952, S.702–7 · Public domain

1691 CE

#387

Osteologia nova, or some new observations of the bones.

Havers discovered the Haversian canals and made important observations of the physiology of bone growth and repair. The Haversian lamellae, glands, and folds, are also named after him. The Haversian canals were observ…