A compend of human anatomy

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THUMB INDEX IN EACH COPY

MORRIS’ ANATOMY.

THIRD EDITION-

Preface To The Seventh Edition

The twenty years which have elapsed since this compend was first issued have brought many changes of nomenclature and description into the teaching of Anatomy. The present edition has been entirely re-written and brought into harmony with the latest text-books on this subject. The text has been expanded wherever greater detail seemed desirable, but in so doing the condensed form of statement heretofore adopted has been carefully followed. The total number of illustrations has been increased from 1 17 to 138, and many of the cuts used in former editions have been replaced by newer oncilj. 'The Tables and Plates, heretofore published in an appendix, have been thoroughly revised, and are now placed in their natural positions in the text. These changes have increased the size of the volume by 82 pages, and have made it practically anew book, which the author hopes will receive a continuance of the favor heretofore extended to the previous editions.

Originally designed for the use of the medical student in preparing for the exercises of the quiz-room and for his examinations, the text is confined to the essentials of each structure treated of, which are arranged in such a manner as to facilitate their rapid acquirement. All superfiuities of descri})tion have been studiously avoided, and only such matter inserted as should be thoroughly known in order to pass a rigid examination on any organ or structure of the human body. The descriptions will be found to closely follow Gray, though Morris, Quain, and other recognized authorities have been freely consulted during the

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PREFACE TO THE SEVENTH EUITION, preparation of the text. For many of the special arrangements the author is indebted to the lectures of Professor W. H. Pancoast, formerly of Jefferson Medical College, and to the quizzes of Dr. Plenry Morris, at one time assistant to the chair of Anatomy in the same school.

While striving to carry out the object of this series in furnishing the medical student with a condensed manual of Anatomy, * the author has endeavored, from a strong appreciation of the importance of the subject, to make this volume deserving of first rank among its kind ; and believing that a judicious condensation, which does not slight the essential features of the subjects treated, cannot fail to be of benefit in any department of science, he again commits this compend to the teachers and students of Anatomy, in the hope that it may continue to be found worthy of a place alongside the more exhaustive and exhausting text-books.

Sam’l O. L. Potter.

San Francisco, 1903.

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OSTEOLOGY 9

BONES OF THE TRUNK 12