Anatomy of the absorbing vessels of the human body

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Title Anatomy of the absorbing vessels of the human body
Subject Human anatomy--Early works to 1800
Creator Cruickshank, William, 1745-1800
Description William Cruikshank (1745-1800) established the modern understanding of human lymphatics. William Hunter began this work, but it was Cruikshank who produced the definitive account in 1786, The Anatomy of the Absorbing Vessels of the Human Body. The second edition, published in two volumes in 1790, was 'considerably enlarged,' with additional plates. William Cruikshank was a British chemist and anatomist. In 1771, he became assistant to William Hunter. He then became partner in the Great Windmill Street School, later named the Hunterian Medical School. In 1797, the same year he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, he first demonstrated that a particular crystallizable substance exists in urine and is precipitated from it by nitric acid. In 1800 he identified carbon monoxide as compound containing carbon and oxygen.
Date 1790
Type Text
Format application/pdf
Language eng
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Holding Institution J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Scanning Technician Ellen Moffatt
Call Number QM21 .C97 1790; Record ID 99857380102001
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Setname uum_rbc
ID 1394270
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6d54zbj
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