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Biomedical Ephemera, or: A Frog for Your Boils

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Bones and Muscles of the Thigh and Leg

Clorion appears to have been Martha Chase Owen, the wife of Richard Owen, who was the son of the founder of the settlement of Harmonie/New Harmony, Indiana. She first arrived in the settlement with her first husband, Dr. Thomas Chase, who was an artist and a chemist.

After a year of turmoil and being turned out of her own house, Dr. Chase confronted his wife’s friend Richard Owen, who’d been walking around town with Martha....

[Anatomical Illustrations taken from The Domestic Physician]. Clorion, 1830. Via Historical Anatomies on the Web.

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