George McClellan (anatomy professor)

George McClellan, M.D. (1849–1913) was an American medical doctor and a grandson of George McClellan, also a doctor. McClellan graduated from Jefferson Medical College in 1870.[1] He founded the Pennsylvania School of Anatomy and Surgery where he gave lectures from 1881-1893,[2] and taught artistic anatomy at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts for the last 23 years of his life. His anatomical expertise was recognized by Jefferson Medical College in his 1906 appointment as chair of the applied anatomy department. His best known literary work is his Regional Anatomy in Its Relation to Medicine and Surgery in which McClellan made his own photographs from his own dissections and completed the illustrations himself.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "George McClellan". Thomas Jefferson University Archives and Special Collections. Retrieved 2012-08-08.
  2. ↑ "McClellan Family Papers". Penn University Archives and Records Center. Retrieved 2012-08-08.
  3. ↑ "Highlights of the University Archives and Special Collections". Thomas Jefferson University Archives and Special Collections. Retrieved 2012-08-08.

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