Nathaniel Highmore

Nathaniel Highmore, circa 1660-1665

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

Life

Nathaniel Highmore was born the son of the Reverend Nathaniel Highmore, who became Rector of Purse Caundle in Dorset in 1614 . After completing school at Sherborne School , Highmore first attended Queen's College at the University of Oxford and, from 1632, Trinity College , where he graduated from BA in 1635 and MA in 1635 . In 1638 he began studying medicine. In 1640 Highmore married Elizabeth Haydocke, the daughter of a doctor from Salisbury . The marriage remained childless.

In 1642 he was part of a group of scientists from Trinity College led by George Bathurst and William Harvey , who researched the embryonic development of chickens. This resulted in a friendship between Harvey and Highmore and an almost simultaneous publication of their joint findings just a week apart. Harvey's Exercitationes de generatione animalium and Highmores The History of Generation appeared in 1651.

Highmore graduated from Oxford with an MD in 1643 and practiced as a doctor in Sherborne for 40 years. Nathaniel Highmore is buried in Purse Caundle Church in Dorset.

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Highmore's textbook on anatomy Corporis humani disquisitio anatomica , published in 1651 and dedicated to William Harvey, was the first to recognize Harvey's new circulatory theory. The work was accepted as the standard textbook for many years and attracted a lot of attention in and outside of England.