Henry Alan Skinner

Henry Alan Lawson Skinner born Erin, Ontario on September 26, 1899 was a Canadian anatomist and classical scholar who wrote The Origin of Medical Terms, published by The Williams & Wilkins Company, Baltimore in 1949. He received his M.B from Toronto, and was appointed assistant professor of Anatomy at the University of Western Ontario in 1929. By 1963 he had risen to Professor and Head of the Department of Anatomy at Western Ontario.