Incus Berengario da Carpi in his "Commentaria super anatomia Mundini" (1521). Andreas Vesalius, in his "De humani corporis fabrica", was the first to compare the second element of the ossicles to an anvil, thereby giving it the name "incus". The final part of the long limb was once described as a "fourth ossicle" by Pieter Paaw in 1615. Incus The incus or anvil is a bone in the middle ear. The anvil-shaped small bone is one of three ossicles in the middle ear. The "incus" receives vibrations from the malleus, to which it is connected laterally, and transmits these to the
Anvil firing to intelligence received of the presence of Confederate bushwhackers in Davis County. This was in response to a report of two suspected Confederate guerrillas at a residence in the neighborhood where they had demanded money and food and had terrorized the occupants, Mr. and Mrs. Gore. The private citizen who carried out the order to fire the anvil was seriously injured. Anvil firing Anvil firing (also known in the USA as an "anvil launching" or an "anvil shooting") in the USA is the practice of firing an anvil into the air with gunpowder. In the UK this is where black