HOME AWAY FROM HOME

Authors
BEASLEY AW
Citation
Aw. Beasley, HOME AWAY FROM HOME, Australian and New Zealand journal of surgery, 67(8), 1997, pp. 547-550
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Surgery
Journal title
Australian and New Zealand journal of surgery → ACNP
ISSN journal
00048682
Volume
67
Issue
8
Year of publication
1997
Pages
547 - 550
Database
ISI
SICI code
0004-8682(1997)67:8<547:>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
A discourse on the careers and events that relate to Everard Home's Le ctures on Comparative Anatomy, published in six volumes, of which the final supplementary volume of 1828 is in the Gordon Craig Library. Thi s volume contains 68 engravings, of subjects as diverse as the stomach of the alpaca and the female organs of the duckbilled platypus Ornith orhynchus, and Home's credentials occupy about half of the title page.