PREFACE. 



THE author is aware of the many valuable works on 

 Anatomy adapted to the Student and Practitioner of Medi- 

 cine; but he does not know of one that has been arranged 

 with a view also to the claims of the Student and Practi- 

 tioner of Dental Surgery. To prepare a work, therefore, 

 adapted alike for the Dental as well as the Medical Stu- 

 dent one which directs special attention to the Mouth, 

 showing step by step the important anatomical and physi- 

 ological relations which it has with each and all the 

 organs and functions of the general system forms one of 

 the leading objects of the present undertaking. 



Dental Students are slow to see and feel the necessity of 

 a knowledge of any more of Anatomy than so far as the 

 Teeth and their immediate connections in the mouth are 

 concerned, and to go beyond this is thought rather a waste 

 of time, and entirely foreign to the practice of the profes- 

 sion they design to pursue. No work on Anatomy has 

 taken very particular pains to teach them any better. To 

 correct this false and dangerous sentiment, and to demon- 

 strate the necessity of anatomical knowledge to the scien- 

 tific, skillful, and successful Dentist, equally with that of 

 the Physician, forms the second and chief reason which 

 has induced the author to write the present work. 



The Plan of the work, after giving a general outline of 

 Organization, divides the subject into four parts: 



The first part teaches the Alphabet of Anatomy, or the 

 Elementary Tissues of the Body, whose varied combina- 



