A manual of dissections of the human body : for the use of students and more particularly for those preparing for the higher examinations in anatomy / by R.E. Carrington.

  • Carrington, R. E.
Date:
1881
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Credit: A manual of dissections of the human body : for the use of students and more particularly for those preparing for the higher examinations in anatomy / by R.E. Carrington. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Thoracic and Abdominal cavities may fairly be considered as not an essential part of the dissection, whilst in one to display the Internal Mammary Artery, a detailed account of the Thoracic and Abdominal parietes is evi- dently required. Students are often puzzled to know whether they are to consider such cavities as opened, or whether they are to write down every separate structure they divide in the course of the dissection. It is difficult to give an absolute answer, but in the absence of specific information from the examiner himself, much will depend upon the amount of time allowed them to write their paper. It may, however, be taken for granted that nothing but naked-eye anatomy is required. The plan that has been followed in arranging and writing out the various dissections is this:— 1. The position of the body, or part, is indicated. 2. The requisite skin incisions have then been stated carefully. 3. The dissection has been divided into stages numbered I., II., III., &c, and the different steps of each stage have been indicated by the small letters a, Z>, c, d, &c. 4. After each stage short accounts numbered 1, 2, .3, 4, &c, of the structures exposed have been given, following as far as possible some definite direction, as from above downwards, or from side to side, and taking them in the order of bones, muscles, arteries, veins, nerves, &c. The student should avoid giving a bare list: he is not required to describe each structure that may be exposed, but he should indicate the relative positions of parts succinctly and distinctly. 5. When a structure to be exposed lies in two or
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