TOPOGRAPHY OF THE THORAX 

 AND ABDOMEN 



INTRODUCTION 



THE use of sections in the study of human topographic 

 anatomy can be traced back for several centuries. 

 They were used to illustrate the works of Vesalius (1555), 

 Eustachius (1564) and numerous anatomists of the seven- 

 teenth and eighteenth centuries. These illustrations con- 

 sist chiefly of crude and schematic representations of head 

 and pelvic sections. 



De Riemer,! a Dutch anatomist, made sections of the 

 frozen body in 1803 and published his atlas in 1818. 



Froriep,^ of Tubingen, made sections of frozen arms and 

 legs in 1813 and of frozen female pelves in 1815. He an- 

 nounced as his most striking observation "the entirely new 

 view of the relations of the parts given by the method." 

 This view was so different from that obtained by the ordi- 

 nary methods of study that he states: "It is necessary for 

 one to feel one's way, as it were, among the parts." 



^ De Riemer, P., Exposition de la position exactedes parties internes 

 du corps humain, tant par rapport tl leur position mutuelle, que parleur 

 contact aux parots des cavit^s ou elles se trouvent plac^es; avec une de- 

 scription explicative y relative. La Haye, iSiS. 



2 Froriep, Ludwig Friedrich V., Ueber anatomie in beziehung au£ 

 chirurgie. Nebst einer darstellung der relativen dicke und lage der 

 muskeln am ober-und unterschenkel. Weimar, 1S13. Ueber die lage 

 der eingeweide im becken, nebst einer neuen darstellung derselben. 

 Weimar, 1815. 



