Guide to the method of dissection for the use of the students of practical anatomy in the University of Glasgow / by Allen Thomson and John Cleland.

  • Allen Thomson
Date:
1861
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    5. In tlie case of a ]Male Subject, a day is set a]>ai-t at the conmiencement for the dissection of the perinseum, Thereaftei, and in the case of a Female Subject immediately on its being brought into the Rooms, the subject is first placed with the face downwards for four days, during which time the posterior regions are to be dissected, in so far as within reach, in the order afterwards mentioned for each part. It is then turned and laid upon its back, when the dissection of the vaiious parts in front is to be made. 6. The dissection of the Head and Neck and of the Limbs is to be begun when the subject is first laid upon its face; that of the Abdomen as soon as it is tui'ned on the back, and that of the Thorax when the upper Limbs are removed. The Limbs are not to be removed before the tenth day, and the further dissection of the several parts is to proceed in accordance with the methods suggested in the Special Dii-ections. 7. Those Students who have not previously dissected, are recommended to take the limbs for their first and second dissec- tions, after they shall have obtained a sufficient knowledge of the Bones and Joints; and for the most part, the Junior Students ought not, in a first or second dissection, to attempt to expose more than the muscles and the largest vessels and nerves. In their third and subsequent dissections they will gradually be enabled to make a more complete display of all the parts. 8. In the dissection of the Limbs, no interference between the Dissectors of opposite sides can occur; but in the Head and Neck, Thorax and Abdomen, there is a necessity for the Students who possess the parts of opposite sides to act in concert. The Viscera must be examined by them together, and it will fre- quently happen that the dissectors of both sides cannot work at the same time. When such is the case, the one Dissector shoidd give his assistance to the other by reading or otherwise; and it will sometimes be found advantageous for them to make in concert different kinds of dissections on the opposite sides of the body; such as the Muscles chiefly on one side, and the Vessels and Nerves on the oth^, or the Orbit from above on one side, and in a lateral view on the other, &c.