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length, situated at the inner side of the 

 orbit, behind the tendo oculi. He was 

 professor of anatomy in the University 

 of Pennsylvania ; author of various 

 treatises on anatomy, histology, and 

 pathology, and the first to demonstrate 

 the true character of the " rice-water " 

 discharges in cholera. 



Houston, J oh n. — An Irish surgeon, born 

 1802 ; died 1845. Three prominent folds 

 of mucous membrane in the interior 

 of the rectum are known as Houston's 

 folds. Also a band of muscular fibres 

 described by him, and capable of com- 

 pressing the veins of the penis, is termed 

 Houston's muscles. 



Hovius, Jacobus. — A Dutch anatomist, 

 born 1710; died 1786. The ciliary 

 canal is named for him — canal of Ho- 

 vius; also a plexus of veins in the cili- 

 ary region of the eye is termed Ho- 

 vius's plexus. 



Howship, John. — An English surgeon, 

 born — ; died 1841. Howship's la- 

 cunae in bone are named for him. 



Huguier, Pierre Charles — A French sur- 

 geon, born at Sezanne in 1804; died in 

 Paris, 1873. The canal of Huguier, in 

 the middle ear, and ihe pair of small 

 glands which open into the vagina — 

 glands of Huguier, — are named for him. 



Hunter, John. — An English surgeon, born 

 at Long Calderwood, in Lanarkshire, in 

 1728; died suddenly in St. George's Hos- 

 pital in 1793. The triangular canal giv- 

 ing passage to the femoral artery and 

 vein, and the internal saphenous nerve, 

 is termed Hunter's canal. 



