PREFACE 



FOR the last four years it has been my privilege to conduct a 

 short course of lectures on Medical Applied Anatomy in 

 connexion with the Edinburgh Post-Graduate Courses in 

 Medicine and Surgery. At the suggestion of Dr. J. D. 

 Comrie, the Medical Editor of the Edinburgh Medical Series, 

 these lectures have been collected and expanded and are now 

 issued in book form. 



As the realms of Medicine and Surgery are not sharply 

 separated from one another, it has been a matter of some 

 difficulty to avoid encroaching on the domain of Surgical 

 Applied Anatomy, but the endeavour has been made to restrict 

 the subject-matter so as to present, at moderate length, the 

 more important applications of Anatomy to the study of 

 Clinical Medicine. On this account, the subject has been 

 treated according to Systems and not according to Regions, 

 and it is hoped that the grouping of muscles with their nerves 

 of supply under the Nervous System will be found useful by 

 the reader. 



In collecting the material for this book, I have necessarily 

 been indebted to the published works of numerous authors, 

 and, more particularly, I' wish to express my great indebted- 

 ness to the writings of Mackenzie, Sahli, and Purves Stewart. 



For numerous suggestions and much helpful advice, 

 always freely and willingly given, I owe my warmest thanks 

 to Dr. J. D. Comrie. In addition, I gratefully acknowledge the 

 help given me by Dr. A. Murray Drennan, who assisted in the 

 laborious task of proof-reading, and by Dr. E. B. Jamieson, 

 whose criticisms have always been of the greatest value. 



Some of the illustrations have appeared previously in other 

 works. Figures 7, 8, 12, 15, 32, 33, 35, 36, 38, 39, 44, 49, 

 5 J j 53> 55 5 8 > 79> 82 > IZ 4> an d 115 are taken from Hirschfeld 



