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PREFACE. 



IN 1862 there appeared a work which is now classical, " Kest 

 and Pain," by John Hilton. In the preparation of the present 

 volume we have endeavoured to follow, in some degree, the lines 

 suggested by that author, and to indicate the important influence 

 of Anatomy on the incidence and progress of disease, disorder, 

 and injury of the human body. 



We are fully conscious that we have but inadequately fulfilled 

 the task we have imposed upon ourselves. There are many 

 omissions ; and explanations are not always so complete or 

 convincing as we could desire. We have aimed throughout at 

 keeping the book within reasonable limits, and have avoided the 

 inclusion of highly controversial points. So many excellent 

 treatises on Applied Anatomy have made their appearance of 

 recent years that it might be thought that there was neither 

 room nor necessity for another. The present work, however, 

 differs from these in that it deals with the purely clinical side of 

 the subject, and is written from a practitioner's rather than an 

 anatomist's point of view. Hence all anatomical points which 

 are not essential are omitted. The anatomy of surgical pro- 

 cedures, which is already amply detailed in various manuals of 

 operative surgery, is purposely passed over. 



We trust that the book will prove of service to the senior 

 student and to the practitioner, and show that Systematic 

 Anatomy has not yet said its last word in the education of the 

 clinician. 





