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appeared in a series of Christian Medi- 

 cal_ Biographies. His life was charac- 

 terized b}' great religious fervor. 



Highmore, Nathanael.— An English physi- 

 cian, born at Fordingbridge in 1613 ; 

 died at Sherborne, in Dorsetshire, in 

 1685. He was an excellent anatomist 

 and described quite accurately the so- 

 called corpus Highmorianum, the sem- 

 inal ducts, and the epididymis. The 

 antrum of Highmore is also named for 

 him. 



Hilton, John. — An English surgeon, born 

 in London, 1804; died at Clapham, 1878. 

 The Arytaeno-epiglottidseus inferior, 

 and compressor sacculi laryngis, is 

 named Hilton's muscle. He was sur- 

 geon-extraordinary to the Queen, and 

 became well known to the profession 

 by his work on "Rest and Pain." 



Hirschfeld, Ludwig Moritz. — An Austrian 

 anatomist, born at Nadargyn in 1816 ; 

 died 1876. The branch of the facial 

 nerve which supplies the styloglossus 

 and the palato-glossus muscles is named 

 for this anatomist, — Hirschfeld's nerve. 



H i s, William. — A Swiss anatomist, born 

 1831 ; died April 30, 1904. His' gran- 

 ule cell is named for him. He was 

 professor of anatomy in the University 

 of Leipsic. 



Horner, William Edmonds — An American 

 anatomist, born in Warrenton, Va., 

 June 3, 1793; died in Philadelphia, 

 March 13, 1853. The tensor tarsi, or 

 Horner's muscle, is a small thin muscle 

 about three lines in breadth and six in 



