PREFACE 



This paper is the revised and enlarged form of a thesis 

 presented to the University of Missouri in June, 1903, for 

 the degree of Master of Arts ; and is based upon work begun 

 in the anatomical laboratory of the University of Missouri 

 in 1901. 



The object of the paper is to add to the few detailed 

 observations upon the interrelations of the organs as found 

 in a single body. 



For this purpose, therefore, a body has been studied 

 by the method of sections, with reference to the more im- 

 portant thoracic and abdominal organs and systems which 

 are described individually, giving in each case the topo- 

 graphy of the part, its relations to surrounding structures, 

 and a comparison with the literature of the subject. Al- 

 though no attempt has been made to exhaust this literature, 

 reference is made constantly to the text-books of descript- 

 ive anatomy, by Ouain, Cunningham, Testut, Bardeleben, 

 and Poirier and Charpy ; the anatomical atlases of Braune, 

 Toldt, Spalteholtz, Bardeleben and Haeckel ; and the topo- 

 graphical anatomies of Joessel, Merkel, Hyrtl, and Ruedin- 

 ger, and special articles and monographs by Henke, Toep- 

 ken, Schieflferdecker, Addison and others. After each dis- 

 cussion, there is indicated, briefly, the more important 

 points of difference between the relations of the organs 

 found in the trunk described in this paper and those de- 

 scribed by the authors named. 



