Anatomy. A manual for students and practitioners

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Preface

The opportunity afforded by the preparation of this book for the presentation of a brief Modern Anatomy has been deemed too valuable to sacrifice by duplicating existing " Anatomical Compends." The science is steadily advancing in the discovery of new facts. Twenty years ago the German anatomists recorded discoveries which are only now coming to the notice of the American student. A hand-book can at most contain only the essentials of the science, and in the present instance the effort has been to select such knowledge as will be most useful to the student and the practitioner.

In the hope of presenting some new descriptions not accessible to all students, I have compiled the sections on Osteology, Arthrology, and Myology from Henle and from Quain, while Gray's Anatomy and notes on the lectures of Prof. George S. Huntington of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, have also been largely consulted. The order and classification of Henle have been followed throughout: joints are mostly from his work, and where his descriptions of them differ greatly from those of English text-books, they have been described separately in fine print. Many muscular anomalies have been mentioned in fine print. New names for muscles as agreed upon by the German Anatomical Society have been marked " p. n." (proposed name). Illustrations from Gray, Quain, Henle, and Schwalbe have been reproduced to illustrate special points. English and metric measurements are both given, the English being approximately correct.

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Space has been gained by conciseness and by the omission of many monosyllabic words. It is to be noted that the questions are, in a sense, headings introducing generally a large amount of information in the answers.

The Glossary has been written in the hope of promoting a correct pronunciation of anatomical terms.

I have to acknowledge the assistance of Dr. Andrew O'Malley and the Editor of the Series, who have written the sections on Angeiology, Neurology, and Splanchnology. In the latter section the relations of the viscera are with slight modifications those given by Professor George S. Huntington, and the works of Quain and Gray serve as the basis for the general descriptions of the viscera, as well as for the sections on Angeiology and Neurology.

This volume is not intended to replace text-books, but will be found serviceable in facilitating the remembrance of knowledge gained from more extended works and at the dissecting-table.

FRED J. BROCKWAY.

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