Vl PREFACE. 



the author is indebted to the lectures of Professor W. H. Pan< 

 coast, late of Jefferson Medical College, and to the quizzes of Dr. 

 Henry Morris, formerly assistant to the Chair of Anatomy in the 

 same school. 



While striving to carry out the object of this series in furnish- 

 ing the medical student with a condensed Manual of Anatomy, 

 the author has endeavored, from a strong appreciation of the 

 importance of the subject, to make this volume deserving of first 

 rank among its kind ; and believing that a judicious condensation, 

 which does not slight the essential features of the subjects treated^ 

 cannot fail to be of benefit in any department of science, he 

 again commits his Compend to the teachers and students of 

 Anatomy, in the hope that it may continue to be found worthy 

 of a place alongside the more exhaustive and exhausting text- 

 books. 



January, 1887. 



PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION. 



Another edition of this Compend having been exhausted, the 

 publishers have requested me to improve the book in any way 

 which will keep it in the front rank among works of its class. 

 I have therefore added an Appendix of forty-three pages, con- 

 taining an original and complete set of Tables and Plates of the 

 Arteries, the Cranial and Spinal Nerves and Plexuses, and the 

 Sympathetic Nervous System. These have been prepared 

 especially for this book, and will, I think, prove of very great 

 value to the student in college, and the physician in practice, 

 who desires a comprehensive view of these complicated parts of 

 the human organism. 



SAM'L O. L. POTTER. 

 COOPER MEDICAL COLLEGE, 



San Francisco y July, 1890. 



