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Title: Richard Owen and the discovery of the parathyroid glands
Author(s): Cave, A.J.E.
Year published: 1953
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Pages: vol. 2, pp. 217-222, figs. 1-3
Reference From:Underwood, E.A. 1953 Science, medicine and history, essays of the evolution of scientific thought and medical practice, written in honour of Charles Singer. London etc., Oxford University Press, vol. 1, pp. i-xxxii, 1-563; vol. 2, pp. i-viii, 1-646
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Anatomy - Glands
Indian Rhino
Discovery of parathyroid by Richard Owen, Rhinoceros unicornis died in London Zoo in 1850. Credit for the discovery of the parathyroid lands is generally accorded to Ivar Victor Sandstr?m (1852-1889), who, in 188o, when praelector in anatomy in the University of Uppsala, published the first syst...
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Indian Rhino
Owen's anatomy of the animal living 1834-1850. It was on 24 May 1834 that the Zoological Society of London acquired its first specimen of the Great Indian Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis). This animal, a male, reached the Society's menagerie on 20 September 1834, wherein it lived until its de...
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Indian Rhino
animal died in 1941. The identification of Owen's 'compact yellow glandular body' with the parathyroid gland is also confirmed by the writer's dissection of the thyroid region of two adult male Indian Rhinoceroses which died in the menagerie of the Zoological Society of London in 1941 and 1945 (...
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Captive - Europe
Captivity - Zoo Records
Indian Rhino
animal died in 1945. The identification of Owen's 'compact yellow glandular body' with the parathyroid gland is also confirmed by the writer's dissection of the thyroid region of two adult male Indian Rhinoceroses which died in the menagerie of the Zoological Society of London in 1941 and 1945. ...
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