Nathaniel Gaymore [2] (Highmore; Nathaniel Highmore ; February 6, 1613, Fordingbridge , Hamptonshire - March 21, 1685, Sherborne , County Dorsetshire ) is an English surgeon and anatomist named after his maxillary sinus .
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Nathaniel Gaymor was born in the family of the Rev. Nathaniel Gaymor, who worked in 1614 as rector in Dorset. After leaving school, Gaymor attended Queens College of Oxford University, and since 1632 - Trinity College , which he graduated in 1635 with a bachelor's and then a master's degree. In 1638, he began his medical research. In 1640, Gaymor married Elizabeth Haydock ( Haydocke ), the daughter of a doctor from Salisbury. They had no children.
In 1642, he was part of a group of scientists from Trinity College, which investigated the embryonic development of chicken. Here he met and made friends with Harvey . In 1651, with the difference of one week, the compositions of Harvey “Exercitationes de generatione animalium” and Gaymor “The History of Generation” appeared .
In 1643, Gaymor completed his research at Oxford, and then practiced as a doctor for 40 years at Sherborne. Nathaniel Gaymor is buried at Purse Caundle Church in Dorset.
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- ↑ 1 2 Who Named It?
- ↑ Highmore // The Eightfold Path - Germans. - M .: Big Russian Encyclopedia, 2006. - S. 296. - ( Big Russian Encyclopedia : [in 35 vols.] / Ch. Ed. Yu. S. Osipov ; 2004—2017, vol. 6). - ISBN 5-85270-335-4 .