ADVERTISEMENT TO THE NINTH EDITION OF WISTAR'S ANATOMY. 



The increasing estimation in which this favorite Work on Anatomy is held 

 by the Medical Profession of this country, having already caused the last 

 unusually large edition to be exhausted, the publishers in passing the ninth 

 edition through the press, have been desirous of rendering it worthy of the 

 continuance of such gratifying support, by having such additions and improve- 

 ments made as the progress of the science required. With this object the text 

 introduced by the editor, has been subject to revision ; much new matter has 

 also been added, with a care however, not so to extend the work as to impair its 

 character for clearness, brevity, and simplicity, which has made it so great a 

 favorite with the Medical Student. Several wood cuts have been added, and 

 the copperplate illustrations of the Arteries by SirC. Bell, which were formerly 

 sold separate, at a cost greater than the whole of this work, have been renewed 

 by a skillful engraver, so as to serve not only as an ornament to the book, but 

 an aid of the greatest importance to the Student. 



JOSEPH PANCOAST. 

 Fhiladelphia, 1846. 



ADVERTISEMENT TO THE EIGHTH EDITION. 



The publishers of " Wistar's Anatomy for the use of Students of Medicine," 

 gratified with the favorable reception, which their attempt to enlarge and illus- 

 trale this well known work has met with, have resolved in preparing another 

 edition for the press, to render it as far as is in their power, deserving of a continu- 

 ation, of the patronage it has received. For this purpose it has been carefully re- 

 vised and enlarged so as to include such important additions and investigations of 

 interest as have been recently made in the science. By comparing the present 

 with the former editions, the reader will discover that these have been both 

 numerous and important in each division of the subject. This the publishers 

 have been enabled to do without much increasing the size of the volumes, by 

 substituting, for the old copperplate prints, a very large number of engravings 

 on wood, of the finest description. These which are intercalated with the text 

 and explained by foot notes, cannot fail to render the work more convenient and 

 valuable as a text-book, in the various schools in which it has been adopted, 

 and at the same time make it serve as a most useful guide to the student in the 

 study of practical anatomy. The additional illustrations have been taken 

 mainly from Wilson's Anatomist's Vade Mecum, (London, 1812,) and partly 

 from the English edition of Cruvielhier's Anatomy, (London, 1842,) and from 

 the recent splendid work on General Anatomy, by F. Gerber. The present 

 edition of Wistar, contains eight colored copperplate engravings of the blood- 

 vessels, and upwards of two hundred and twenty engravings on wood, rendering 

 it in this respect more richly and amply illustrated than any other book of the 

 kind that has yet been offered to the American student. 



The same plan has been pursued as mentioned in the preface to the seventh 

 edition, of distinguishing the new matter that has been added, from the original 



text of Dr. Wistar. 



JOSEPH PANCOAST. 

 Fhiladelphia, 1842. 



