Practical anatomy.

  • Christopher Heath
Date:
1870
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Credit: Practical anatomy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    In presenting this American edition of Heath's Practical Anatoni}-1 feel that I have been instrumental in supplying a want long felt for a real Dissector's Manual—one which should not be merely a descriptive anatomy, but what its name indicates, a help to the practical anatomist at the dissecting table, enabling him, though a beginner, to pro- secute his work intelligently, and even without assistance. The arrangement of the text has been considerably modified, in the first three parts, to bring it in accord with the method pursued in our American dissecting rooms. Instead of dissecting the front and the back of the arm, then the front and the back of the forearm, &c, I have carried the student down the front of the entire arm, and then the back, &c. Our habit of dissecting the perineum, the abdominal wall, and hernia, with the leg, has also necessitated the transfer of these portions from Part III. to Part II. Besides these changes and a very careful correction of such errors, typographical and otherwise, as had escaped the attention of the author, it has seemed to me advisable to make a few additions, which will be found distinguished from the text by insertion in brackets [—]. Among these are some general remarks on hernia, on the triangles of the neck, &c, and some general rules for the relation of parts and the structure of organs, which may aid in clearing up the confusion often existing in the minds of students on these subjects.