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Albinus (Ger. Weiss), Bernhard Siegfried, a German anatomist, born in Frankfort-on-the-Oder, Feb. 24, 1697, died in Leyden, Sept. 7, 1770. He was educated by his father, professor of medicine at Frankfort, and afterward at Leyden, and also studied under Winslow and Senac in Paris. At the age of 22 he was called to fill the office of demonstrator at Leyden, then the most celebrated school of medicine in Europe, and two years later became professor of anatomy and surgery. He published De Ossibus Corporis Humani, Historia Musculorum Hominis, and lastly, Tabulae Sce-leti et Musculorum Corporis Humani (fol., Leyden, 1747), illustrated with costly plates prepared under his own inspection. He edited the works of Harvey.
 
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