PREFACE. 



The work I publish is a compendium of a course of anatomy, 

 which I have been delivering for these ten years past ; and 

 is solely intended for students of medicine. My object in 

 publishing it, is to offer them, in a small volume, an abridg- 

 ment of the numberless labours undertaken for more than 

 twenty centuries, in the science of the organization of man. 



I divide the anatomy of man into general anatomy, special 

 anatomy of the organs, and anatomy of the regions. This 

 volume contains only the General Anatomy, and may be con- 

 sidered either as a separate work, or as the first part of a ge- 

 neral treatise. 



In writing this part of Anatomy, I have made a liberal use 

 of the work of our celebrated Bichat, as well as of those works 

 which have since been published on the same subject. I have 

 also consulted treatises ex-professo, for each system or kind 

 of organs. I have been careful to quote in every chap- 

 ter, the titles of the works which furnished me with the ma- 

 terials necessary to compose it, less with the view of making 

 an easy and vain display of erudition, than to exempt others 

 from the necessity of reading the works which 1 was myself 

 obliged to peruse; and at the same time to point out, to those 

 who are anxious to make farther researches and more profound 

 studies, a sort of select anatomical library. I have also indi- 

 cated the plates, which may be consulted with advantage for 

 each kind of organ. 

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