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TO THE EIGHTH EDITION. 



The first four Editions of " Quain's Elements of Anatomy" 

 were the work of the late Dr. Jones Quain ; and it has been deemed 

 advisable still to retain the title by which the book has been so long 

 known, notwithstanding that in passing through the succeeding 

 three Editions, and that which now appears, it has undergone 

 alterations so extensive and fundamental that little of the original 

 text now remains. 



Of these later Editions, the fifth was brought out under the 

 editorship of Professor Richard Quain and Dr. Sharpey ; the sixth 

 was edited by Dr. Sharpey and Professor Ellis, and the seventh by 

 Dr. Sharpey and Dr. AUen Thomson, in association with Dr. 

 Cleland, Professor of Anatomy in Queen's College, Galway, whose 

 extensive and exact knowledge of the existing state of Anatomical 

 Science was of much service throughout the work. 



In the present Edition the distribution of the matter between 

 the two volumes has been in some respects altered ; and it is be- 

 lieved that the use of the book by students will be facilitated by 

 the change. 



The First Volume consists of the Special or Descriptive 

 Anatomy of the Bones, Joints, Muscles, Vessels, and Nerves. It 

 also includes the subject of Surgical Anatomy, which was formerly 



