Nathaniel Highmore (surgeon)

Nathaniel Highmore ( born February 6, 1613 Fordingbridge, † March 21 1685 in Sherborne ) was an English surgeon and anatomist, after the corpus of Highmore of the testicle is named.

Life

Nathaniel Highmore was born as the son of the Reverend Nathaniel Highmore, the rector of Purse Caundle 1614 in Dorset. After leaving school at Sherborne School attended Highmore at the University of Oxford, first the Queen's College in 1632 and from Trinity College, where he in 1635 for BA and 1635 to M. A. graduated. In 1638 he began his medical studies. 1640 married Elizabeth Haydocke Highmore, the daughter of a doctor from Salisbury. The marriage remained childless.

In 1642 he was among a group of scientists at Trinity College to George Bathurst and William Harvey, who explored the embryonic development of chickens. This resulted in a friendship between Harvey and Highmore and an almost simultaneous publication of their joint findings at a distance of just one week. Harveys Exercitationes de generatione animalium and Highmore's The History of generation appeared 1651st

1643 completed his studies at Oxford Highmore as MD and practiced 40 years as a doctor in Sherborne. Nathaniel Highmore is buried in the Purse Caundle in Dorset.

Work

Highmore published in 1651 and William Harvey devoted to anatomy textbook corporis humani Disquisitio anatomica was the first which recognized the new blood circulatory theory Harveys. The work was accepted as a standard textbook for many years and brought Highmore inside and outside England much attention.

• Physician (17th century)
• Anatomist
• Surgeon
• English
• Born in 1613
• Died in 1685
• Man