PREFACE. Y 



of Stirling, and Wilder and Gage's Anatomical Technology ; 

 many hints have also been gathered from the various elemen- 

 tary physiologies, riot only in the subject-matter, but also in 

 the illustrations. 



Thanks are due the following publishers for permission 

 to make extracts from their books on the subject of Alcohol : 

 D. Appleton & Co., P. Blakiston, Son & Co., F. A. Davis Co., 

 Henry Holt & Co., J. B. 'Lippincott Co., Longmans, Green & 

 Co., Macmillan & Co., and W. B. Saunders. Especial thanks 

 are due Mrs. Mary H. Abel for permission to use the extended 

 extracts from the Lomb Prize Essay on Practical Sanitary 

 and Economic Cooking. 



All of the illustrations, with four exceptions, have been 

 engraved expressly for this work. In all cases the label is 

 placed as near as possible to the thing labeled. The author 

 believes most strongly in this style of labeling, as he has 

 learned that young students do not find the connection be- 

 tween the letters or figures of the ordinary illustration and 

 the explanation below (usually in fine print). Diagrams have 

 proved very useful, since many of the anatomical plates pre- 

 sent so many details that the young student is bewildered, 

 and does not seem able to distinguish between the important 

 and the unimportant features. In most cases the dorsal view 

 is presented, so that the right and left of the organs are at 

 the right and left of the reader. The ventral view, like a 



mirror, reverses right and left. 



B. P. C. 

 NORMAL, ILL., December, 1897. 



