An elementary textbook of anatomy

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Preface

Text-Books on Anatomy liave in later years grown to such cliniensions as to be htted only lor study by those who are able to devote two or more years to accjuiring a knowledge of that science. An attempt has been made in the following pages to give such a view ol Anatomy as may serve as an introduction to Junior Students of medicine, and may give to women, training for the practical work of nursiiiL^ the sick, all the information of the structure of the body they need. To otliers, not professed students, who may desire simply to obtain an exact but elementaiy knowledge of the structure of their own bodies, this little work may perhaps be more inviting and serviceable than a treatise of greater elaboT*ation and bulk.

The illustrations have been drawn from various

sources, and are <luly acknowledged. A large number

are taken from Dr. J. M 'Gregor- Robertson’s Elementary

Text-Book of Physiolof/y, belonging to the same series

of Science Text- Books as the present volume. By

arrangement with Messrs. J. & A. Churchill, veiy

many illustrations have been borrowed from Wilson’s

Anatomist' s Vade-Mecmm. The writer, having several

times edited that work, has necessarily been unable

to avoid slight i-esemblances to it here and there in the

present work, which is nevertheless strictly original

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in the sense of having been written from the knowledge gained by the author during more than twenty years experience as a teacher of anatomy.

24 India Street, Glasgow,

Januarij, 1895.

Preface To The Second Edition

While it has not been found necessary to make any extensive or radical changes in the present edition, the opportunity has been taken to correct some minor errors, and to make such alterations as are rendered necessary by the increased knowledge (or the changed opinion) of the present day.

Glasgow, Augiist, 1903.