Bowman

Bowman, William (1816-92), renowned English anatomist. He received his medical education in Birmingham, and then to supplement it, he visited several countries on the continent. From 1838 - demonstrator and curator of the anatomical museum in London. In 1848-1856 - professor of physiology, general pathology, and pathological anatomy, and from 1877 - consultant and vice-president of surgery at the London Ophthalmic Hospital. Bowman worked not only in the field of ophthalmology but also in microscopic anatomy. Among his numerous works should be noted "On the minute structure and movements of voluntary muscle", London, 1841; "On the structure and use of the Malpighian bodies of the kidney", London, 1842; "Lectures on the parts concerned in the operations on the eye", London, 1849. A number of anatomical terms are associated with Bowman's name: Bowman's discs, capsula glomeruli renis, membrana elastica anterior corneae (Bowmani).