iv PEEFACE 



dissections on the head and neck to crowd all the neces.-ary detail into 

 plates only two-thirds the natural size, full-size ones were substituted, 

 and in order to give a good view of the anterior wall of the abdomen 

 two double plates have been introduced. 



The diagrams, upon which much time has been spent, are mostly from 

 original work done by the author during his demonstratorship at the 

 Middlesex Hospital Medical School ; those in the First Part the upper 

 limb being found too small, the rest have been drawn upon a larger 

 scale and in a bolder method. And here I must express mv gratitude 

 to PROFESSOR CUNNINGHAM and DR. KOLLKSTON for kindly giving me leave 

 to reproduce diagrams in the 'abdomen' (Part IV.), which I hope will 

 prove useful to a better understanding of its anatomy. 



To MR. PERCY HIGI-ILEY great credit is due for the masterly way in 

 which he has both drawn from nature and placed the plates on stone, 

 and for rapidly grasping and representing artistically the intentions of 

 the author. All the bony outlines of the cuts have been drawn from 

 the skeleton, and in introducing the outline of the bones a new feature 

 the relative positions of the bony landmarks to the cutaneous tissues 

 have been shown. 



To MR. I'or.mx and MR. A. G. NOBLE the author returns sincere thanks 

 for their help in making some of the dissections, the former chiefly in 

 Parts I. and II., and the latter especially in the last Part, where his name 

 will be found conjoined with that of the author. 



To MB. E. T. KKNT, F.E.C.S., the Dean of the St. Mungo School of 

 Medicine at Glasgow, the author is much indebted for kindly placing 

 at his disposal the necessary material for the dissection of Plate 73. 



The author returns his sincere thanks to DR. GUTHRIE, who kindly 

 read through and criticised the letterpress of the last two Parts and 

 made many valuable suggestions as to its revision. 



Nor would this Preface be complete without a reference to the great 



kindness with which the author was treated by his old teacher and friend 



the late MR. ARTHUR HENSMAN both in the granting of material upon 



which to make the dissections, and in the kindly criticism of the First 



Part. 



0. GORDON BEODIE. 



