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died at Padua in 1616. The perforated 

 muscle of Casserio is an old name for 

 the coracobrachialis muscle. The Cas- 

 serian ganglion is a name used inter- 

 changeably with Gasserian ganglion, or 

 semi-lunar ganglion on the 5th nerve. 

 (See Gasser). 



Chassaignac, Charles Marie E, — A French 

 surgeon, born 1805; died 1879. The 

 anterior tubercle of the transverse pro- 

 cess of the sixth cervical vertebra is 

 sometimes known as Chassaignac's, or 

 the carotid tubercle. 



Chaussier, Francois, — A French anatomist 

 and surgeon, born at Dijon in 1746; died 

 at Paris, 1828. He was a famous anato- 

 mist and cultivator of the history of 

 anatomy. His new nomenclature of 

 anatomy has been in considerable part 

 adopted by the French school. 



Clarke, Joseph Lockhart — An English mi- 

 croscopist of eminence, born 1817; died 

 1880. He is best known by his memoirs 

 on the minute anatomy of the nervous 

 system, where Clarke's posterior vesi- 

 cular column is named for him. 



Claudius — A German anatomist, born — . 

 The cells of Claudius, in the internal 

 ear, are named for him. 



Cohnheim, Julius. — A German pathologist, 

 of Demmin, in Pomerania, born 1839; 

 died 1884. The so-called areas of Cohn- 

 heim found in muscular fibres are named 

 for him. He was professor of patho- 

 logical anatomy in Leipsic, and author 

 of valuable investigations on inflamma- 

 tion and the embolic processes. He 

 was the first to inoculate tubercle in 



