The class book of anatomy : explanatory of the first principles of human organization, as the basis of physical education : designed for schools / by Jerome Van Crowninshield Smith.

  • Jerome V. C. Smith
Date:
1836
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Credit: The class book of anatomy : explanatory of the first principles of human organization, as the basis of physical education : designed for schools / by Jerome Van Crowninshield Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Anatomy explains the nature, office, and structure of every part of the human body. From remote antiquity, men of learning and persevering industry have labored to comprehend and explain the complicated machinery of man, but at no period has the subject been better understood than at the present. By the study of this science, the condition of the species has been ameliorated ; extreme sufferings have been avoided; and human life has been prolonged. On the minds of youth the influence exerted by a con- templation of their own physical condition, founded on a general knowledge of the situation and functions of the different organs, must have a beneficial tendency. As they discover the exact regularity of parts; the beauty and harmony resulting from particular combinations of machinery, endowed with a high degree of vitality, on the action of which health, life, and happiness are con- stantly depending, it would be strange indeed if they did not fall in humble adoration before that Supreme Intelli- gence which created and sustains them. Comparative anatomy implies a dissection of the infe- rior animals, as birds, fishes, reptiles, and even plants, in order to demonstrate, analogically, the functions of simi- lar apparatus in man. This is an exceedingly useful pursuit, and though philosophers have apparently been guilty of unnecessary cruelties, all their researches have had reference to relieving mankind from some of those What is understood by the science What is comparative anatomy? of anatomy ?
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