PBEFACE TO THE FIEST EDITION. 



APPLIED ANATOMY has, I imagine, a twofold function. 

 On the one hand it -serves to gite a precise basis to 

 those incidents and procedures in practice that more 

 especially involve anatomical knowledge ; on the 

 other hand it endues the dull items of that knowledge 

 with meaning and interest by the aid of illustrations 

 drawn from common medical and surgical experience. 

 In this latter aspect it bears somewhat the same 

 relation to Systematic Anatomy that a series of ex- 

 periments in Physics bears to a treatise dealing with 

 the bare data of that science. 



The student of Human Anatomy has often a 

 nebulous notion that what he is learning will some- 

 time prove of service to him ; and may be conscious 

 also that the study is a valuable, if somewhat unex- 

 citing, mental exercise. Beyond these impressions he 

 must regard his efforts as concerned merely in the 

 accumulation of a number of hard unassim liable facts. 



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