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ANATOMY 



THE present-day problems of any Science 

 are so vast that their listing would be no 

 mean work and their full discussion a 

 task well-nigh insuperable. The older he grows 

 the more a scientist realises how little he really 

 knows, how much there is to learn and to unlearn. 

 He lives to see old beliefs slowly crumbling away 

 and new avenues of research opening out with 

 bewildering rapidity and ever-widening vista. 



Anatomy serving as the handmaid to the art of 

 the physician and to the craft of the surgeon, the 

 anatomist is primarily concerned with the study of 

 the form and exact positions of the different organs, 

 and of the structure of the various tissues which go 

 to make up the body of man. Such studies, vastly 

 important though they be from a practical and 

 utilitarian point of view, form but a relatively small 

 part of his field of investigation. The anatomist 

 is not content with knowing the form and posi- 

 tion of any part of the body ; he seeks further to 

 learn its functional correlation with other parts, its 

 intimate architecture whereby it is adapted to play 

 its efficient part in the general body-economy, the 



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