3G8 ON THE PROGRESS OF ANATOMY. 



by the study of geometry and the result of former research ; in 

 the latter, to reason from the forms and relations of the 

 anatomy of large masses to the forms and relations indicated 

 by microscopical appearances. 



You will now be prepared, gentlemen, in some measure to 

 comprehend the principles which I shall inculcate for your 

 guidance. From among the innumerable facts within our 

 reach I shall select and group together those which best illus- 

 trate the grand laws of the science, and which, in the hands 

 of modern anatomists, have afforded such brilliant results. 

 In this manner, I trust I shall be enabled to accomplish what 

 I have long felt to be necessary in the present day, and 

 especially in this country — a course of anatomical instruction, 

 in which, without losing sight for one moment of the para- 

 mount importance of human anatomy, the laws of organic 

 structure shall be evolved, so as to afford, as completely as 

 possible, a view of that wide range of anatomical knowledge 

 which is so essential to the advancement of scientific medicine. 



