Text-book of embryology / by Frederick Randolph Bailey and Adam Marion Miller.

  • Frederick R. Bailey
Date:
1912
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Credit: Text-book of embryology / by Frederick Randolph Bailey and Adam Marion Miller. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Text-book, as originally planned, is an outgrowth of the course in Embryology given at the Medical Department of Columbia University. It was intended primarily to present to the student of medicine the most important facts of development, at the same time emphasizing those features which bear directly upon other branches of medicine. As the work took form, it seemed best to broaden its scope and make it of greater value to the general student of embryology and allied sciences. With the opinion that illustrations convey a much clearer conception of structural features than verbal description alone, the writers have made free use of figures. The plan of adding brief “Practical Suggestions” at the end of each chapter has been so thoroughly satisfactory in the Text-book of Histology, especially in connection with laboratory work, that it has been adopted here. These “suggestions” are not intended to be complete descriptions of embryological technic, but are for the purpose of furnishing the laboratory worker with cer- tain of the more essential practical hints for studying the structures described in the chapter. To avoid frequent repetition, some of the best methods of procuring, handling, and preparing embryological material, and some of the more important formulae are given in the Appendix, which is intended to be used mainly for the carrying out of the “Practical Suggestions.” The development of the Germ Layers has been treated rather elaborately from a comparative standpoint, because this has been found the most satisfac- tory method of teaching the subject. In the chapter on the Nervous System the aim has been to give a general conception of the subject, which, if once mastered by the student, will give him an insight into the structure and significance of the nervous system that will bring this difficult subject more fully within his grasp. In Part II (Organogenesis), at the end of each chapter there is given a brief description of certain developmental anomalies which may occur in connection
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