[Transcriber’s Notes]
Thanks to Carol Presher of Timeless Antiques, Valley, Alabama, for lending theoriginal book for this production. The 140 year old binding had disintegrated,but the paper and printing was in amazingly good condition, particularly themulticolor images.
Thanks also to the Mayo Clinic. This book has increased my appreciation oftheir skilled care of my case by showing the many ways that things could gowrong.
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A few obvious misspellings have been corrected. Several cases of alternatespelling of the same(?) word have not been modified.
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I INSCRIBE THIS WORK TO
THE GENTLEMEN WITH WHOM AS A FELLOW-STUDENT I WAS ASSOCIATED
AT THE
London University College:
AND IN AN ESPECIAL MANNER, IN THEIR NAME AS WELL AS MY OWN, I AVAIL MYSELF OFTHE OPPORTUNITY TO RECORD,
ON THIS PAGE,
ALBEIT IN CHARACTERS LESS IMPRESSIVE THAN THOSE WHICH ARE WRITTEN
ON THE LIVING TABLET OF MEMORY,
THE DEBT OF GRATITUDE WHICH WE OWE
TO THE LATE
SAMUEL COOPER, F.R.S., AND ROBERT LISTON, F.R.S.,
TWO AMONG THE MANY DISTINGUISHED PROFESSORS OF THAT INSTITUTION,
WHOSE PUPILS WE HAVE BEEN,
AND FROM WHOM WE INHERIT THAT BETTER POSSESSION THAN LIFE ITSELF,
AN ASPIRATION FOR THE LIGHT OF SCIENCE.
JOSEPH MACLISE.
The object of this work is to present to the student of medicine and thepractitioner removed from the schools, a series of dissections demonstrative ofthe relative anatomy of the principal regions of the human body. Whatever titlemay most fittingly apply to a work with this intent, whether it had better bestyled surgical or medical, regional, relative, descriptive, or topographicalanatomy, will matter little, provided its more salient or prominent characterbe manifested in its own form and feature. The work, as I have designed it,will itself show that my intent has been to base the practical upon theanatomical, and to unite these wherever a mutual dependence was apparent.
That department of anatomical research to wh