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Naples, 1818 (Mayne) ; 1822 (Baas). 

 He was a man who rose from the deep- 

 est poverty, and became professor of ana- 

 tomy in the University at Naples. Is 

 known from his profound investigations 

 concerning the internal ear, — the aquae- 

 ductus and aqua Cotunnii being named 

 for him. He was the first (1770) to 

 demonstrate, by boiling, the existence of 

 albumen in the urine. 



Cotunnius. — Same as Cotugno. 



Cowper, William — An English anatomist, 

 born at Alresford, in Hampshire, in 

 1666; died in London in 1709. Discov- 

 erer of the two symmetrically placed 

 glands — Cowper's glands, — lying below 

 the membranous portion of the urethra, 

 and close behind the bulb. 



Crampton, Sir Philip — An Irish surgeon, 

 born 1777; died 1858. The meridional, 

 external, or radiating fibres of the 

 ciliary muscle, were first observed by 

 this surgeon, and are named for him, — 

 Crampton's muscle. 



Cruveilhier, Jean — A French surgeon, born 

 at Limoges in 1791 ; died at Sussac, near 

 Limoges, in 1874 (Mayne) ; 1873 

 (Baas). The anterior ligament of the 

 metacarpo - phalangeal articulations are 

 named the glenoid ligaments of Cruveil- 

 hier, 



Cuvier, George Leopold Christian Fried- 

 rich Dagobert Baron von. — A French 

 naturalist, born 1769 ; died 1832. He 

 described the two lateral trunks by 

 means of which the vertebral veins 

 formed by the union of all the vertebral 



