Manual of anatomy : systematic and practical, including embryology

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MANUAL

OF ANATOMY

SYSTEMATIC AND PRACTICAL,

Preface

In the preparation of this work the object of the author has been to combine a manual of practical anatomy with a text-book of systematic anatomy, and so furnish students with a complete treatise on the subject written entirely by himself.

The section on osteology is treated of in an exhaustive manner, and an account of the ossification of each bone follows its description.

The joints are described in the order in which they are met with in the course of dissection. Each of the sections of the upper limb, lower limb, abdomen, thorax, and head and neck, has appended to it a complete guide to its dissection, giving full information as to the manner in which the dissections should be carried out, and detailing the structures which should be exposed.

The minute anatomy of the viscera and organs is fully described and illustrated by drawings from microscopical preparations in the possession of the author.

Special sections are devoted to the nervous system, the eye, the ear, and the nose, and these are also fully illustrated.

The subject of embryology is dealt with by appending to the description of each viscus and organ a concise account of its development, in the hope that this method may enlist the attention of students in this very important subject.

The work is amply illustrated by drawings which have been executed by the well-known anatomical artist, Mr. James T. Murray, of Edinburgh, who has done his work with the greatest care and excellence, and whom the author desires to thank cordially. Most of the drawings are coloured (many of them in three tints), and the drawings of the bones have the origins and insertions of the muscles delineated in different colours, the origins being in red and the insertions in blue. The majority of the drawings have been specially executed for this work, and the sources from which the

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PREFACE others have been taken are duly acknowledged. The author begs to thank all who have generously and kindly granted permission to use their drawings.

Throughout the whole of the work the author, from his long experience, not only as a teacher, but also as an examiner on various Boards, has kept constantly in view the examinational requirements of students, for whom this work is specially intended.

He has to acknowledge with deep gratitude the valuable assistance which he has received from Dr. J. Archibald Campbell, Senior Demonstrator of Anatomy in Anderson’s College, and from Mr. Hugh F. Watson, Junior Demonstrator. He has also gratefully to thank the publishers for the immense amount of labour which they have kindly undertaken in various directions, for the very great care which they have bestowed upon the publication of this work, and for their uniform courtesy. Finally, he has gratefully to thank Mr. Alexander Duncan, B.A., LL.D., Librarian to the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, for many acts of kind and much appreciated aid.

Anderson’s College, Glasgow,