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Historical Bibliography Updated: January 27, 2020

A treatise on the human skeleton, including the joints.

Publication Details

Cambridge, England: Macmillan, 1858 CE.

Humphry was professor of anatomy at Cambridge and became the first professor of surgery there. He founded the Journal of Anatomy and Physiology in 1867. “Humphry’s ligament” of the knee-joint is described on p. 546 of the above book and pictured on plate 53, fig. 1.

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Entry Number#419
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/959
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLa-treatise-on-the-human-skeleton-including-the-joints

Geographic Context

Publication place: Cambridge, England