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TO THE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. 



THE favourable reception which my recent Work on Practical 

 and Surgical Anatomy has received, both from the Profession 

 and the press, commands my first attention and grateful remem- 

 brance on again presenting myself to public notice as an aspirant 

 for honours in the field of Medical Science. On the present 

 occasion, I submit the Anatomist's Vade Mecum to the Members 

 of the Profession, with the fullest assurance that they will find it 

 to be a complete system of descriptive Anatomy, recording in its 

 pages, in a clear, precise, and perspicuous style of expression, 

 every important detail of human structure, and the most modern 

 and valuable discoveries and researches in the Science of 

 Anatomy. 



To the established practitioner it is a matter of great impor- 

 tance that he should be possessed of the means, during the few 

 spare hours which he can abstract from his anxious and respon- 

 sible duties, of easily and agreeably refreshing his acquaintance 

 with that science which is the acknowledged basis of all safe 

 and skilful medical practice. Of this application of my present 

 labours I have not been unmindful, in composing the Anatomist's 

 Vade Mecum ; and I sincerely trust that the work will prove to 

 be the instructive and interesting companion of his important 

 practical avocations. 



The Student of Medicine, from the first moment of commen- 

 cing his labours in the study of Anatomy, must be made aware 

 of the absolute necessity that exists for clearness of thought, ex- 

 actness of language, and a rigorous arrangement of ideas. He 

 must feel confidence in the knowledge which he' possesses, and 

 he will then exhibit that confidence in the decision by which all 



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