PREFACE. 



Sixteen years ago, ,,H e it zni aim's Anatomischer Atlas" was 

 first published. Since that time the work has been one of the princi- 

 pal works on anatomy in use in German and Austrian universities, 

 and more flian 30.000 copies of it have been sold. 



As the work is now offered to the English reading medical 

 public, it is by no means an exact translation from the German, 

 and, especially in the second part, the text was often materially 

 altered, in order to bring it more in unison with the leading 

 English works, such as Gray and Q, u a i n. It will be noticed that 

 a good many Latin words were allowed to remain in the figures, 

 even where such words are not in general use in the English text 

 books; wherever this was done, the corresponding English word 

 was almost invariably added to the text, so that, even for those 

 not well versed in Latin, there would be no difficulty in under- 

 standing them. 



With the exception only of those figures especially so men- 

 tioned, the illustrations were all drawn on wood by the author, 

 either from nature, or from preparations in .the anatomical museum 

 at Vienna. 



In its present, slightly altered form, it is hoped that the work 

 will serve both as an aid to the medical student, and as a work 

 of reference to the physician. 



Vienna, October 1886. 



Louis Heitzmann. 



