Essentials of Anatomy and Manual of Practical Dissection Together With the Anatomy of the Viscera Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine

by Charles Beylard Nancrede

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574 pages, Hardcover

Published November 5, 2015

About the author

CHARLES BEYLARD GUERARD de NANCREDE was born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 30, 1847, son of Thomas Dixie and Mary Elizabeth (Bull) Nancrede. His paternal grandfather was a lieutenant in the French army under Rochambeau, was wounded at Yorktown, and afterwards settled in this country. His early education was obtained under private tuition. He entered the collegiate Department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1864 and remained two years. He then passed to the Medical Department, where he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1869. After spending one year as Intern in the Protestant Episcopal Hospital at Philadelphia, he became Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania and served from 1871 to 1881. For some time he was also Lecturer on Osteology in the same institution. From 1871 to 1877 he was Assistant Surgeon to the Protestant Episcopal Hospital; he was Surgeon to the same from 1877 to 1889, and Surgeon to Saint Christopher's Hospital for Children from 1879 to 1886.