Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Colles’ ligament

  • Abraham Colles—Giant among surgeons

    Abraham Colles was born in Kilkenny in Ireland in 1773. The story has it that as a boy he found an anatomy book in a field after a flood had destroyed a doctor’s house. He took the book to his owner, a Dr. Butler, who, finding he was so interested in it, let him keep…