Testimonials in favour of James B. Pettigrew, M.D. Edin. ... candidate for the chair of anatomy in the University of Edinburgh.

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[1867]
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Credit: Testimonials in favour of James B. Pettigrew, M.D. Edin. ... candidate for the chair of anatomy in the University of Edinburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    On the Ganglia and Nerves of the Heart, and their Con- nexion with the Cerehro-Spinal and Sympathetic Systems in Mammalia.—Proceedings of the Royal. Society of Edinburgh, 1865. The dissections on which this investigation rests were injected and prepared after a new method, and are preserved in the Anato- mical Museum of the University of Edinburgh. The subject is one of extreme difficulty; so difficult, indeed, that when Professor Goodsir announced it as the theme of his Senior Anatomy Gold Medal (an honour at all times eagerly coveted), he had not a single Candidate. I am about to issue this paper “ in extenso ” with numerous addi- tions, and a greatly augmented number of original drawings. On the Muscular Arrangements of the Bladder and Prostate, and the manner in which the Ureters and Urethra are closed.—Philosophical Transactions, 1867. This memoir is illustrated by seventy original drawings, and the dissections on which it is based are duly catalogued and preserved in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, where they may be consulted. The views promulgated in it are incorporated in the 7th and last edition of Quain’s ‘Anatomy,’ and likewise in Mr. Gant’s forthcoming edition of his work ‘ On the Irritable Bladder, its Causes and Cura- tive Treatment.’ Contribution to the Arrangement of the Muscular Fibres in the Human Stomach.—Quain’s Anatomy, New Edition, 1867. On the Presumption of Survivorship.—British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review, 1865. On the various Modes of Flight in relation to Aeronautics.— Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, 1867.
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