Cams, Karl

GUSTAV, an eminent German physician, physiologist, psychologist, and artist; B. 1789, in Leipsic, where his father had a dyeing establishment. He graduated in Leipsic, in 1811, and in this year established himself as lecturer on comparative anatomy, which branch had not been taught in Leipsic up to that time. He soon devoted himself to obstetrics and diseases of females. In 1814, he was made profe or of obstetrics and director of the obstetrical clinic in the newly organized medical and surgical academy in Dresden; and, in 1862, was elected president of the Royal Leopold Carolina Academy. He has been an arduous student in the sciences, and a voluminous writer. He wrote: Lehr buch der Zoötomie, (1818;) Lehrbuch der Gynäkologie, (1820;) Erläuterungstafeln zur Ver glei chen den Anatomie, (1826;) Grundzüge der Ver glei chen den Anatomie und Physio logie , (1828;) Ueber den Blutkreislauf der Insekten, (1827;) Vorlesungen über Psycho logie, (1831;) Atlas der Kranioskopie , (1843;) ., ., and many others on scientific subjects, and some on art studies. Cam'toos, or Gam'toos, in S. Africa, a considerable river of the E., division of Cape Colony. It rises in the Niewveldt Mountains, and, after a course of 200 m., falls into the sea, 20 m. from Uitenhage. Camus'. We insert this article principally to make the distinction between several French mathematicians of this name. 1. François Joseph des Camus, B. 1672, D. 1732, author of Traité des Forces Mouvantes, 1722, and editor of Varignon's Mechanics, 1725. He D. in England, whither he had gone in search of employment. 2. Charles Etienne Louis Camus, B. 1699, D. 1768, was the companion of Clairaut, Lemonnier, and Maupertuis, in the measurement of the meridian in Lapland, author of the Hydraulique, Cours de Mathématiques , and a list of works which may be found in Hutton's Dictionary. He was also concerned in the verification of Picard's Degree, 1757. 3. Nicholas le Camus de Mézières, B. 1721, D. 1789, author of various works on architecture, his profe ion. Cam'us, Cam'is n. A thin dre . Cam'-wheel, n . ( Mach . ) See CAM. Cam'-wood, n. [Probably an abbreviation of Cam peachy - wood .] The wood of Baphia nitid a , (see BAPHIA.) It is used in dyeing, instead of Brazil-wood, and gives a finer and more durable red. "All in silken camus , lily white." Spenser.