PREFATORY NOTE TO THE THIRD ENGLISH EDITION, 



In offering to the Profession this Third English Edition, I would 

 only say that the whole work has again been thoroughly revised and 

 in many parts extended. In all respects I have endeavoured to keep 

 it abreast of the latest investigations in Physiology and their bearing 

 on Practical Medicine and Surgery. 



I have again to thank my publishers for enabling me to enhance 

 the usefulness of the work by very numerous additions to the Illustra- 

 tions, which now number 692 as compared with the 494 of the First 

 Edition. Many of these new engravings are original ; others are 

 derived from the 6th German edition of the work, from Stohr's Lchrbuch 

 der Histologic, Quain's Anatomy, Terrier's Functions of the Brain (2nd 

 Edition), H. Obersteiner's Anlcitung beim Studium des Bancs der nervosen 

 Centralorgane, Eollett's Article on "Muscle" in the Real-Encijclopaxlie, 

 Gowers' Diseases of the Nervous System, and most of those for the 

 chapter on Eeproduction from Haddon's Introduction to Embryology. 



In addition, I have to tender special acknowledgments to my 

 colleagues and friends, Professors A. H. Young, James Eoss, A. W. Hare, 

 and Dr Aug. D. Waller ; as well as to Messrs Carl Eeichert of Vienna, 

 W. Petzold of Leipzic, Eothe of Prague, Maw, Cassella, Krohne and 

 Sesemann, Evans & Wormall of London, and Ferries & Co. of Bristol. 



For the first time the work appears here in one volume an arrange- 

 ment adopted both to meet the wishes of Students and to facilitate 

 easy reference. I can but express a hope that the present Edition, in 

 its new form, will meet with the same very kind reception accorded to 

 its predecessors. 



WILLIAM STIELING. 

 The Owens College, 

 Manchester, September 1888. 



