A new method of making anatomical preparations : particularly those relating to the nervous system / by Joseph Swan.

Date:
1833
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Credit: A new method of making anatomical preparations : particularly those relating to the nervous system / by Joseph Swan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    TO THE SECOND EDITION. There are so many difficulties attending the study of anatomy, that it need not be a matter of wonder that so small a proportion of those who enter upon it attain the object they desire. In almost every other department of science the student is enabled to prose- cute his inquiries when and wherever he pleases j but it is not so with anatomy. The difficulties in pro- curing subjects, and, when procured, the almost equal difficulty of dissecting them, except in public anato- mical theatres, form of themselves obstacles that are never experienced in the prosecution of any other studies. When any part of the body has been dis- sected and all the knowledge possible has been derived from it, the difficulty almost always hitherto expe- rienced in preserving it, so as to convey any adequate idea of what it was in its fresh state, leaves those who b
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