An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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The microscopic anatomy of the human body, in health and disease.

London: S. Highley, 1846 – 1849.

First English textbook on microscopical anatomy. His description of the concentric corpuscles of the thymus (p. 9) led to the term “Hassall’s corpuscles”.



Subjects: ANATOMY › 19th Century, ANATOMY › Microscopic Anatomy (Histology), MICROBIOLOGY
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