Outlines of human osteology / by F.O. Ward.

  • Frederick Oldfield Ward
Date:
1876
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    it inconsistent with this design to dilate freely upon some obscure and difficult points, which have heeu passed over in a few linos by previous writers. The arrangement of the treatise is such that the df- scriptive and relativa anatomy of the bones can be studied either separately, or in connexion with each other. The names of muscles, nerves, arteries, &c., are uniutelligible and perplexing to the beginner who has never dissected I nor seen these parts, and who finds the description of the bones themselves sufficiently complex and difficult to require his undivided attention. The advanced student, on the contrary, who refers to an osteological treatise, merely to refresh his memory, and to associate his earlier with his more recent acquisitions, finds it useful to be reminded of the names of those organs which, either by direct attachment, or by proximity, are related to the j bones. To adapt the work to the necessities of these two classes of students, all names and details belonging to relative osteology have been carefully sifted out of the | text, and thrown into notes at the foot of each page ;— ' where they are as much out of the way of the beginner as if they were entirely removed from the work, and at the same time as accessible.to the advanced student as if they were allowed to retain their usual position in the text. The success of Professor Partridge's Osteological | Lectures, in which a similar plan ia pursued, leads me to anticipate that this method of arrangement will be attended by a considerable saving of time and labour to the students wlio use this boolc. ' In concluding this preface, I would draw the attention | of anatomists to the prejudicial tendency of the custom now prevalent in our medical schools, of discounectiug the study of analitm'u-al forms from that of ])]ii/!iiologic<(l (lAions and (f.'.v.s-. The lectures, and the elementary treatises, from which the student derives his earliest I notions of anatomical science, are, with few exce]itions, devoted entirely to the minute description of organs, and afford no information as to their functions, or the purport |
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