Clopton Havers

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Clopton Havers (born Stambourne, Essex 1657 - 1702) was an English physician who did pioneering research on the microstructure of bone. He is believed to have been the first person to observe and almost certainly the first to describe what are now called Haversian canals and Sharpey's fibres.

[edit] Book published

• Havers, Clopton 1691 Osteologia nova, or some new Observations of the Bones, and the Parts belonging to them, with the manner of their Accretion and Nutrition.

[edit] Reference

• Dobson, Jessie 1952 "Pioneers of Osteogeny: Clopton Havers," The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 34 B (4):702-707.

[edit] External link

• Unibversity of Florida entry