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It should be one object of Applied Anatomy to invest 

 these facts with the interest derived from an associa- 

 tion with the circumstances of daily life ; it should 

 make the dry bones live. 



It must be owned also that all details in Anatomy 

 have not the same practical value, and that the memory 

 of many of them may fade without loss to the compe- 

 tency of the practitioner in medicine or surgery. It 

 should be one other object, therefore, of a book, 

 having such a purpose as the present, to assist the 

 student in judging of the comparative value of the 

 matter he has learnt; and should help him, when 

 his recollection of anatomical facts grows dim, to 

 encourage the survival of the fittest. 



In writing this manual I have endeavoured, so 

 far as the space at my command would permit, to 

 carry out the objects above described ; and while I 

 believe that the chief matters usually dealt with in 

 works on Surgical Anatomy have not been neglected, 

 I have nevertheless tried to make the principle of the 

 book the principle that underlies Mr. Hilton's familiar 

 lectures on " Hest and Pain." 



I have assumed that the reader has some know- 

 ledge of Human Anatomy, and have not entered, 

 except in a few instances, into any detailed anatomical 



