 Reference Base  Richard Owen and the discovery of the parathyroid glands |
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Cave, A.J.E., 1953. Richard Owen and the discovery of the parathyroid glands: vol. 2, pp. 217-222, figs. 1-3
 | In: Underwood, E.A. Science, medicine and history, essays of the evolution of scientific thought and medical practice, written in honour of Charles Singer. London etc., Oxford University Press: vol. 1, pp. i-xxxii, 1-563; vol. 2, pp. i-viii, 1-646 |
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Captive - Europe |
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Captivity - Zoo Records |
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Indian Rhino |
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animal died in 1945. The identification of Owen's 'compact yellow glandular body' with the parathyroid gland is also confirmed by the writer's dissection of the thyroid region of two adult male Indian Rhinoceroses which died in the menagerie of the Zoological Society of London in 1941 and 1945. The second animal examined was some fifteen years of age.
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