Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905. Excerpt: ... permit this without marring in any way the beauty of the drawings or confusing the picture. Many of the plates present the structure considerably magnified. Some things relating to the illustrations by themselves are open to criticism. In a volume so large and heavy it seems almost unnecessary to reduplicate the plates; Plate I, for example, showing "Lines of Incision for Exposure of Arteries and Nerves," appears again as Plate XIII and Plate XXXIV. Plate II and Plate LXV are the same; also III and CLV. The size of the volume also would have been lessened almost one-quarter had the drawings been printed on each side of the page; as it is there are 177 blank pages of specially prepared paper for which the subscribers must pay. A statement therefore that the volume contains 770 pages means that there are only 410 pages of context, 177 plates, several of them reduplicated one or more times, and 177 blank pages. It is certainly quite unnecessary that there should be two large plates of the normal external ear (XCVIII and CLXIII) and were it not for this feature, which savors of padding, the price of the volume might have been brought within the possibilities of purchase of medical students. The section on the nervous system is limited to the brain and its membranes, and is illustrated by a series of excellent plates; one of them, however, delineating the cortical topography is very poor and gives exceedingly antiquated views regarding the situation of sensory end motor areas. The volume is very much better indexed than many of our anatomical works; thirty-four pages of reference, both to the context and to the plates, closing the work. Epilepsy and its Treatment. By William P. Spratling, M. D. (Philadelphia, New York, and London: W. B. Saunders & Co., 1904.) ...
