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His Brother In London: QUAIN, Richard, British surgeon, brother of Jones Quain (q.v.) : b. Fermoy, County Cork, Ireland, July 1800; d. London, England, Sept. 15, 1887. After studying medicine in London and in Paris, he taught in University College, London, from 1828 to 1866, acting as professor of descriptive anatomy (1832-1850) and as professor of clinical surgery in the hospital (1848-1866). One of the first fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1843, Quain was its president in 1868.
For his experiments he needed drawings, but since he had little artistic skill he conceived the idea of making them by means of light. On April 1, 1816 he wrote his brother in London, where he was attempting to promote the Pyreo-lophore, of his results using paper sensitized with silver chloride:
RHADAMANTHUS, rad-a-man'thus, according to Greek legend, a son of Zeus and Europa, and brother of Minos, king of Crete. According to another tradition, Rhadamanthus laid the foundation of the Cretan code of laws, which his brother Minos completed. From fear of his brother he is said to have fled to Ocaleia in Boeotia, where he married Alcmene. In the belief of the Greeks, a spirit in the lower world continued the business of life; hence Rhadamanthus, after his death, was made a judge in the kingdom of Pluto, or the Islands oi Blessed, on account of the-justice of his life had for his associates Aeacus and Minos, name suggests an Egyptian origin of the myt.
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