An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15961 entries, 13944 authors and 1935 subjects. Updated: March 22, 2024

GRANVILLE, Augustus Bozzi

2 entries
  • 7702

An essay on Egyptian mummies; with observations on the art of embalming among the ancient Egyptians.

Phil. Trans., 115, 269-316, 1825.

Granville was the first to perform a dissection of an Egyptian mummy. He reported histological observations of samples from a twenty-seventh dynasty Egyptian mummy that he dissected, and he illustrated dissected views of an ovarian cyst from that mummy. Digital facsimile from the Royal Society at this link.



Subjects: ANATOMY › Embalming, PATHOLOGY › Paleopathology
  • 14017

Graphic illustrations of abortion and the diseases of menstruation. Consisting of twelve plates from drawings engraved on stone, and coloured by Mr. J. Perry, and two copperplates from the Philosophical transactions, coloured by the same artist. The whole representing forty-five specimens of aborted ova and adventitious productions of the uterus, with preliminary observations, explanations of the figures, and remarks anatomical and physiological.

London: John Churchill, 1834.

Concerns miscarriage and aberrant gestation rather than removal or expulsion of embryo or fetus. Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.



Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY › Menstruation, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS › Abortion, PATHOLOGY › Pathology Illustration