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Quain (Family of eminent medical men)

a family of eminent medical men. (1) JONES QUAIN, born in November, 1796, in Mallow, Ireland, studied medicine at Dublin and Paris, and in 1829 was appointed lecturer on anatomy and physiology in the Aldersgate School of Medicine, London. Two years later he was made Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at London Uni- QUAKING GRASS versity. He wrote Quain's "Elements of and drying them into cakes for future Anatomy." Jones Quain published also a series of elaborate "Anatomical Plates" (1858) and a translation of Martinet's "Pathology" (1835). He died in London, Jan. 27, 1865. (2) RICHARD