HENRY C. LEA'S SON & Co.'s PUBLICATIONS Anatomy. 



ALLEN, HARRISON, M. D., 



Professor of Physiology in the University of Pennsylvania. 



A System of Human Anatomy, Including Its Medical and Surgical 

 Relations. For the use of Practitioners and Students of Medicine. With an Intro- 

 ductory Chapter on Histology. By E. O. SHAKESPEARE, M. D., Ophthalmologist to the 

 Philadelphia Hospital. In one large and handsome quarto volume of about 600 double- 

 columned pages, with 380 illustrations on 109 lithographic plates, many of which are in 

 colors, and about 250 engravings in the text. In six Sections, each in a portfolio. Section 

 I. HISTOLOGY (Just Ready}. Section II. BONES AND JOINTS (Just Ready). Section III. 

 MUSCLES AND FASCIAE ( Just Ready). Section IV. ARTERIES, VEINS AND LYMPHATICS 

 (Just Ready). Section V. NERVOUS SYSTEM (Nearly Ready). Section VI. ORGANS OF 

 SENSE, OF DIGESTION AND GENITO-URINARY ORGANS (In Press). Price per Section, 

 $3.50. For sale by subscription only. 



EXTRACT FROM INTRODUCTION. 



It is the design of this book to present the facts of human anatomy in the manner best 

 suited to the requirements of the student and the practitioner of medicine. The author 

 believes that such a book is needed, inasmuch as no treatise, as far as lie knows, contains, in 

 addition to the text descriptive of the subject, a systematic presentation of such anatomical 

 facts as can be applied to practice. 



A book which will be at once accurate in statement and concise in terms ; which will be 

 an acceptable expression of the present state of the science of anatomy ; which will exclude 

 nothing that can be made applicable to the medical art, and which will thus embrace all 

 of surgical importance, while omitting nothing of value to clinical medicine, would appear 

 to have an excuse for existence in a country where most surgeons are general practitioners, 

 and where there are few general practitioners who have no interest in surgery. 



Among other matters, the book will be found to contain an elaborate description of the 

 tissues ; an account of the normal development of the body ; a section on the nature and 

 varieties of monstrosities ; a section on the method of conducting post-mortem examina- 

 tions ; and a section on the study of the superficies of the body taken as a guide to the 

 position of the deeper structures. These will appear in their appropriate places, duly 

 subordinated to the design of presenting a text essentially anatomical. 



A book like this is an ideal rarely realized. It 

 will do, we have no doubt, what its accomplished 

 author hopes: "make anatomy what unfortunately 

 it rarely is-^-an interesting study." It has long been 

 an opprobrium to America that ouranatomical text- 

 books were all foreign, but this work will remove 

 the stigma. It is a mine of wealth in the informa- 

 tion it gives. It differs from all preceding anato- 

 mies in its scope, and is, we believe, a vast im- 

 provement upon them all. The chief novelty 

 about the book, and really one of the greatest 

 needs in anatomy, is the extension of the text to 

 cover not only anatomical descriptions, but the 

 uses of anatomy in studying disease. This is done 

 by stating the narrower topographical relations, and 

 also the wider clinical relations, of the more remote 

 parts, by giving a brief account of the uses of the 

 various organs.and by quoting cases which illustrate 

 the "localization of "diseased action." The plates 

 are beautiful specimens of work by one who long 

 since won a deserved reputation as an artist. The 

 Medical News, October 21, 1882. 



The appearance of the book marks an epoch in 

 medical literature. It is the first important work 

 on human anatomy that has appeared in America; 

 and, more than this, its scope is new and original. 

 It is intended to be both descriptive and topograph- 

 ical, scientific and practical, so that while satisfy- 

 ing the anatomist it will be of value to the 

 practising physician. Such a work is certainly 

 novel, and it will bring the greatest honor to 

 the author. The illustrations of the bones are 

 very fine. The names of the parts, muscular at- 

 tachments, etc., are printed either on the figure 

 or close beside, so that they are easily recognized. 

 Dr. Allen's treatment of the joints is admirable, and 

 the illustrations made from the author's dissec- 

 tions deserve the highest praise. They bear wit- 

 ness to his skill with the scalpel and to that of the 

 artist with his pencil. They are well conceived 

 and well executed, handsome artistically and clear 

 anatomically. As the author points out, such a 

 work as he has undertaken is necessarily encyclo- 

 psedic, and the result shows that he has brought 

 to it a mind well prepared for the task by exten- 

 sive reading, critical judgment and literary ability. 



We can cordially recommend the work to the pro- 

 fession, believing that it is suited not only to those 

 of scientific tastes, but that it will be of use to the 

 practising physician. Boston Medical and Surgical 

 Journal, Jan. 11, 1883. 



It has fallen to the lot of the fortunate publish- 

 ers to be able to bring out the best anatomy yet 

 produced in America, and one which will prove 

 much more useful to the general practitioner than 

 the foreign works now accepted as standard. The 

 descriptions are clear, tersely expressed and well 

 up to date. The work, as a whole, shows a great 

 amount of research, and reflects credit upon its 

 author. Its pages teem with well-culled facts 

 which cannot be found in the ordinary anatomical 

 treatises. The lithographic plates are beautifully 

 executed, and deserve unqualified praise. To the 

 more advanced students in anatomy, as well as to 

 the profession at large, it will prove a valuable 

 companion, and one oiten referred to. Few York 

 Medical Journal and Obstetrical Review, Nov. 1882. 



It is to be considered a study of applied anatomy 

 in its widest sense a systematic presentation of 

 such anatomical facts as can be applied to the 

 practice of medicine as well as of surgery. Our 

 author is concise, accurate and practical in his 

 statements, and succeeds admirably in infusing 

 an interest into the study of what is generally con- 

 sidered a dry subject. The department of Histol- 

 ogy is treated in a masterly manner, and the 

 ground is travelled over by one thoroughly famil- 

 iar with it. The illustrations are made with great 

 care, and are simply superb. It would be impos- 

 sible, except in a general way, to point out the 

 excellence of the work of the author in the second 

 Section that devoted to the, consideration of the 

 Bones and Joints. There is as much of practical 

 application of anatomical points to the every-day 

 wants of the medical clinician as to those of the 

 operating surgeon. In fact, few general practi- 

 tioners will read the work without a feeling of sur- 

 prised gratification that so many points, concern- 

 ing which they may never have thought before, 

 are so well presented for their consideration. It 

 is a work which is destined to be the best of its 

 kind in any language. Medical Eecord, Nov. 25, '82. 



TREVES, FREDERICK, F. R. C. S., 



Senior Demonstrator of Anatomy and Assistant Surgeon at the London Hospital. 

 Applied Anatomy. See Students' Series of Manuals, page 5. 



