4 Preface 



Many suggestions which have been received concerning changes 

 in terminology, refer to the use of terms proper to human anatomy. 

 The nomenclature of comparative anatomy has been vastly im- 

 proved during recent years, and in many respects is better, in the 

 sense of being more uniformly applicable to man and the lower 

 animals, than the revised. B.N. A. nomenclature of human anatomy. 

 Until the latter is enlarged, however, it appears useless to burden 

 medical and premedical students with terms differing even in a 

 minor degree from those which they will eventually use. There 

 is already sufficient difficulty from the clinical stage of instruction 

 onward, as between the terms now and formerly used, in human 

 anatomy. 



What is perhaps a more serious matter is the extent to which 

 the student should, concern himself with terminology. Experience 

 shows that if the instructor adheres to the full statement of the 

 text, the elementary student will sometimes be found, more im- 

 pressed with terminology than with principles and practice. The 

 remedy for this appears to lie in selection. Leaving aside the 

 classic forms of the official nomenclature, which after all exist 

 largely as a protest against careless definition, it should, be earnestly 

 desired that everything identified should be properly designated. 

 This being the case, the question of how far the student may go, 

 either in dissection or in nomenclature, must depend either upon 

 his time or the judgment of his instructor. 



B. A. Benslev. 

 University of Toronto, 



September 15th, 1918. 



