LESSONS 



ELEMENTARY ANATOMY. 



LESSON I. 



A GENERAL VIEW OF THE STRUCTURE OF THE HUMAN 

 BODY AND ITS RELATIONS TO OTHER ANIMAL BODIES. 



I. No object can be understood by itself. We compre- 

 hend any thing the better the more we know of other things 

 distinct from, but related to it. 



" You understand a particular kind of animated being, 

 when looking inwards you see how its parts constitute a 

 system, and again looking outwards and around, how this 

 system stands with regard to other types of organized 

 existence." 1 



Man is an animal, and feels in other words, forms one of 

 a multitude of different kinds of organized and sentient beings, 

 the bodies of which have obvious, but very various, relations 

 with his body. It is clear, then, from the nature of the case 

 that man's body can only be comprehended by means of an 

 extensive acquaintance with the bodies of other animals. 



Experience confirms this conclusion : as the exclusive 

 study of man's body, though sufficient for the mere art of the 

 surgeon, has led to quite erroneous estimates of the nature 

 and meaning of parts of it ; errors corrected only through 



1 Essays by James Martineau ; Second Series, p. 417. 

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