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”

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DEAN, John

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The gray substance of the medulla oblongata and trapezium.

Philadelphia: Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, 1864.

The first American medical book illustrated with photomechanically reproduced plates. Oliver Wendell Holmes praised the book for its remarkable photomicrographs, which may be the first published of brain cross-sections. On pp. 66-69 Dean described his method of preparing specimens using a modified Clarke technique, and photographing with a common camera fitted with an adapter of his design to his Smith & Beck microscope.



Subjects: ANATOMY › 19th Century, ANATOMY › Cross-Sectional, ANATOMY › Microscopic Anatomy (Histology), ANATOMY › Neuroanatomy, IMAGING › Photography / Photomicrography