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learn this nomenclature is in school. The practice ot assuming too much knowl- 

 edge on the part of the student I believe to be wrong in principle. At any rate, 

 we must remember that this book is written, not for those who know anatomy, 

 but for beginners. 



To impress on the student the necessity of tracing muscles to their exact 

 origin and insertion, illustrations of bones having such attachments indicated in 

 color have been introduced. These and nearly all other illustrations are from 

 the work to which the text most frequently refers " Morris' Anatomy." We 

 wish also to express our thanks to both author and publisher for the use of the 

 excellent diagrams from Potter's " Compend of Anatomy," and for the many 

 illustrations of the muscles taken from Gould's (Illustrated) " Medical Dic- 

 tionary." In addition to these we have contributed about sixty original draw- 

 ings, for the most part diagrammatic. We wish also to express our thanks to 

 Dr. Theodor Tieken, Dr. F. R. Sherwood, and Dr. D. Loring for valuable 

 suggestions and to Dr. W. A. Mansfield in particular, who read the original 

 copy and made timely corrections. 



A book that would fail to give due consideration to those structures of the 

 body which can be easily demonstrated on the cadaver by any careful student 

 would fall short of the objects of this work. A book that would attempt in 

 approximately 400 pages to give the same that Morris devotes 1400 pages to, 

 would, to be charitable, be just 1000 pages too small. 



The sequence of structures revealed by dissection, and the great number of 

 illustrations in the book, render an index almost superfluous. In fact, by the 

 aid of the description of the illustration a given muscle or vessel can be found 

 with certainty, even without an index. Still, to make the book as convenient 

 as possible, a brief index is appended. 



W. T. ECKLEY. 



C. B. ECKLEY. 

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