EDITOR'S PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. 



This Treatise on Human Anatomy is designed for the use of Students pre- 

 paring for the Conjoint Board of the Koyal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, 

 for the Fellowship of the lioyal College of Surgeons, and for the Examinations 

 in Anatomy at the various Universities. 



It aims at being a complete and systematic description of every part and organ 

 of the human body so far as it is studied in the dissecting room. 



Histology and development — except the mode and dates of development of 

 the bones, and in a few other instances — are not included, as it is felt that these 

 subjects are more appropriately dealt with in books on Physiology than they can 

 conveniently be in works on Anatomy. 



The different sections have been written by separate Authors, who are known 

 to have devoted special attention to the subjects allotted to them. To these 

 gentlemen my best thanks are due for their generous assistance and able co- 

 opemtion. 



AVhilst each Author is alone responsible for the subject-matter of the article 

 which follows his name, the proof-sheets of other articles besides his own have in 

 certain cases been submitted to him, so that several of the articles may be consid- 

 ered to have received the apj)r()val and endorsement of two, three, or more 

 Authors. This has been particularly the case with the sections on Osteology, 

 Arthrology, Myology, and Neurology. There is, therefore, reason to believe that 

 such important points as the attachments of ligaments and of muscles, and the 

 nerve-supply of muscles, etc., will be found to be in perfect accord in the various 

 sections in which they are referred to or described. 



In the illustrations of the bones, the origins of muscles are indicated by red 

 lines, the insertions by blue lines, and the attachments of ligaments by dotted 

 black lines. 



A feature of the book which, it is confidently hoped, will facilitate the work 

 of students, is the mode of describing the illustrations. 



This plan was decided upon at a conference of all the Authors and one of the 

 artists. It consists in printing the descriptions in different types at the end of the 

 pointers. Thus it will be found that muscles, fasci:c, and ligaments are in one 

 kind of type; arteries, veins, and lymphatics in another; bones in a third ; and 

 nerve-structures in a fourth. The names of special organs — such as the liver, 



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