PREFACE. 



THE production of a new book on Surgical Anatomy calls for 

 a word of explanation. For some years past, while acting as 

 Demonstrators of Anatomy in the University of Edinburgh, we 

 have been struck by the fact that senior students and graduates, 

 when working in the dissecting room, seldom make use of any 

 of the numerous excellent works on Surgical Anatomy. They 

 seem to prefer standard books on Regional Anatomy ; and 

 while they assimilate the anatomical facts, they frequently 

 fail to appreciate their surgical application. Recognising that, 

 when possible, Surgical Anatomy should be studied from dis- 

 sections, we have endeavoured to present the subject in a form 

 suitable for use in the dissecting room. The general framework 

 of this book is founded on a series of lectures on Surgical Anatomy 

 delivered by one of the authors in connection with the Edinburgh 

 Post-Graduate Course. 



While it has been found impossible to avoid encroaching 

 on the subject of Operative Surgery, an endeavour has been 

 made to bring into prominence the anatomy of the operations, 

 excluding as far as possible the details of surgical technique. 

 In order to keep the size of the volume within bounds, it has 

 been found necessary to omit, almost entirely, the descriptions 

 of amputations of the limbs. 



On account of the frequency with which tuberculous disease 

 of bones and joints starts in, and spreads from, the ends of the 

 diaphyses (metaphyses), special attention has been given to 

 the anatomical relations which these regions and the adjacent 

 epiphyses bear to the capsules and synovial reflections of the 

 corresponding joints ; and in order to emphasise the importance 

 of these relations, we have included a number of figures in which 

 they are illustrated. 



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