Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to A W Beasley.
This paper traces the voyage of HMS Beagle under the command of Robert FitzRoy, in which Charles Darwin travelled as naturalist. It examines FitzRoy's subsequent career and the coincidence that he, and two other hydrographers connected with the vessel, fell prey to depression.
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This article examines the career of Frederick John Knox (1794-1873), who was the younger brother and erstwhile assistant of Robert Knox the anatomist. He was licensed by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1831, and in 1840 he emigrated with his wife and family to New Zealand, becoming a significant figure in the scientific community of the infant settlement of Wellington.
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The present paper traces the careers of two men: Dominique, Baron Larrey, and Sir James McGrigor, and examines their contributions to military medicine in the Napoleonic period.
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A discourse on the careers and events that relate to Everard Home's Lectures on Comparative Anatomy, published in six volumes, of which the final supplementary volume of 1828 is in the Gordon Craig Library. This volume contains 68 engravings, of subjects as diverse as the stomach of the alpaca and the female organs of the duckbilled platypus Ornithorhynchus, and Home's credentials occupy about half of the title page.
The display of hands in heraldry provides a graphic reminder of both the origins and development of medical institutions, and of certain aspects of the functional anatomy of the hand--aspects which are of importance to the surgeon who deals with the injured hand. The elegance of the hand appeals to surgeon and heraldic artist alike.
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