Aids to anatomy

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AIDS TO ANATOMY.

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Preface To The Seventh Edition

That this little book should have so kept up its reputation as to have run through six editions, has decided us to launch forth a seventh, in full confidence that it will be as successful as its predecessors.

Its old friends will find it considerably altered, we hope for the better. Much new matter has been added and the sections gathered together into different groups, according to the region of the body to which they belong.

We cordially thank students for their support, and we trust that our little volume, now double its original size, will be to them doubly useful.

September , 1894.

G. B.

P. M Y.

PEE FACE TO THE SIXTH EDITION.

It is highly gratifying that after having been before the student world, both in this country and the United States, for fourteen years, this little work should still retain its popularity as an aid to students who are preparing for anatomical examinations, more particularly those of the conjoint boards of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons in England and Scotland, especially as the success of this little work has called forth others of a somewhat similar character.

I have to thank correspondents for hints as to a few necessary alterations and corrections, and to those who have suggested additions, I may say that I am preparing a further series of Aids, which I hope to complete shortly.

G. B.

Contents

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Introduction 7

§ I.— THE HEAD AND NECK.

Introduction

The object of these Aids is to present to the student of anatomy, in a more compact and tabulated form than is usually seen, some of those facts which he has to know by heart before he can go up for examination. The more important of these facts are so grouped that the mind may readily grasp and retain them.

No attempt has been made to put forward these Aids as original, a few only can be said to be so. Some were copied from anatomical works, others from dissectingroom slates, and many are published owing to the kindness of gentlemen connected with the dissecting-rooms of other hospitals.

No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that such a book as this will render dissection unnecessary. In anatomy nothing can ever take the place of actual practical work, and the student who ventures to present himself for his anatomical examinations with nothing more than book knowledge must not complain if he meets with the fate his temerity rightly deserves.

The surgical importance of certain facts has been duly noted where it was judged necessary.

AIDS TO ANATOMY.