Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Essentials of Anatomy and Manual of Practical Dissection: Together With the Anatomy of the Viscera; Prepared Especially for the Students of Medicine
The author has endeavored in this little book to embody only those facts which have appeared to him to be really the essentials of anatomy; not that he considers it likely that the student will master every minute detail therein contained, but he believes that the knowledge gained by a study of this work will enable the future practitioner, during the remainder of his professional life, to recall such general impressions as will render intelligible current medical literature, or even the more elaborate monographs, and will at once suggest where to consult his anatomical text-books for such terms or facts as may have become indistinct through lapse of time.
While this book cannot replace the larger anatomical works, sufficient descriptive matter has been introduced to enable the student to refresh his memory of the more numerous facts learnt in the lecture and dissecting room, or from his Gray or other text-book, differing in this respect from most of the works of its class, which are little more than a list of names, without any distinctive facts connected with them to aid the student in the difficult task of acquiring a knowledge of a branch of medical study almost solely dependent upon the unassisted powers of the memory.
Conciseness, rather than elegance of diction, has been the aim, so that all words such as the articles a, an, the, have been omitted, except where absolutely necessary.
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