VU1 PREFACE. 



discoveries in Anatomy which may have interest, and to give 

 as complete an abstract of such discoveries as the scheme of 

 the work will permit. By pursuing this plan, the Author 

 trusts to distinguish his volume as the Record of the Profes- 

 sion at large, and not as the text-book merely of a particular 

 school. And, in furtherance of his object, he has to request a 

 continuance of those communications from scientific investiga- 

 tors, which have hitherto so materially aided him. 



The woodcut Illustrations which accompany the Anatomist's 

 Vade Mecum have been increased with each edition. The 

 number which appeared with the first was one hundred and 

 fifty ; with the second, one hundred and sixty-seven ; and in 

 the present they fell little short of two hundred. Severs! of 

 the new figures are illustrative of General Anatomy, and, to 

 insure their absolute correctness, have been drawn from the 

 microscope by the Author himself, with the aid of the camera 

 lucida. Figures 2, 3, and 4, showing the changes which 

 occur during the development of bone ; figures 47, 48, ind 

 49, the minute anatomy of cartilage ; and figure 80, the struc- 

 ture of the ultimate muscular fibril, are examples of such 

 drawings. The structure exhibited in the latter figure formed 

 the subject of a paper which was read before the Royal So- 

 ciety during the present year. 



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