AUTIIOE^S PUEEACE. 



Medicine has reached a point, at ■which Microscopical Anatomy 

 appears to constitute its foundation, quite as much as the Anatomy of 

 the Organs and Systems ; and when a profound study of Physiology 

 and Pathological Anatomy is impossible, without an accurate acquaint- 

 ance, also, with the most minute structural conditions. It seems, there- 

 fore, to be the task of the cultivators of this branch of science, to com- 

 municate the results of their researches, not only to their fellow inqui- 

 rers, and to those who have, in other ways, gone more deeply into 

 medical science, but to all who are devoted to the study of Man in 

 general, and especially to render them easily available by students and 

 practitioners. The attainment of this object is sought, in the present 

 work, by giving a view, as condensed as possible, of the relations of the 

 elementary parts of the body, and of the more intimate structure of the 

 organs. In the execution of this plan, with the exception of some im- 

 portant, but still doubtful questions, all polemical disquisition is avoided, 

 and the History of the Science also left altogether in the background ; 

 whilst as constant reference as could in any way be admitted, has been 

 made to Physiology and Pathological Anatomy, as well as to Compara- 

 tive Histology. 



For further information, the Author refers to more detailed Anato- 

 mical works, and particularly to his "Microscopical Anatomy," in 

 which the data for all that is here only briefly expressed, will be found. 



WcRZBUKG, August Ist, 1852. 



