PREFACE. 



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IN presenting this book to the profession, the author 

 desires to state that it was written especially for students 

 of anatomy and surgery. 



It has been his aim to arrange the subject so as to 

 make it equally serviceable as a text-book on anatomy 

 and a dissector. It will be found fully abreast of the 

 latest teachings in anatomy, and, in some directions, 

 decidedly aggressive, as in treating of the outer layer 

 of the muscular fibres of the uterus, and of the struc- 

 ture of the alveolar processes of the maxillary bones. 

 The section on the teeth has been written with great 

 care by Drs. T. S. Heineken, of New Jersey, and 

 E. E. Caspersonn, of Australia. The author wishes to 

 acknowledge the valuable aid rendered by his assist- 

 ants at the Philadelphia School of Anatomy, Drs. 

 Bland, Croskey, Mackellar, Earley, Halsey, Ellerbeck, 

 Frutchey, Hughes, Sangree, and Mintzer, and his 

 indebtedness to the excellent museums of the Medico- 

 Chirurgical and Philadelphia Dental Colleges. Ac- 

 knowledgment is also made of the many courtesies 

 extended to him by Professors Garretson, Pancoast, 

 Shoemaker, Dorr, Stell wagon, Flagg, and Montgomery. 

 Mr. Davis, the publisher, and his courteous represent- 

 ative, Mr. Johnson, have in every way facilitated the 

 arrangement of the final details, and at once agreed 



