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Iffiorris's | Human Anatomy | a complete systematic treatise | by English and 

 American authors | edited by | C. M. Jackson, M. S., M. D. | professor 

 and director of the department of anatomy, | University of Minnesota | 

 eleven hundred and eighty two illustrations | three hundred and fifty 

 eight printed in colours | fifth edition, \ revised and largely rewritten | 

 Philadelphia | P. Blakiston's Son & Co. | 1012 Walnut Street | No 

 date; copyright, 1914. Cloth, pp. i-xiv+1-1539. Price, $6. 



This book represents the combined efforts of twelve of the 

 most prominent American and English anatomists, who have 

 succeeded well in their attempt to revise and revive a textbook 

 in anatomy which was rapidly falling into disuse. The editor 

 has put forth special effort to discriminate systematically be- 

 tween fundamental and detailed anatomical facts. To meet 

 these conditions, the book is printed in a large and small type; 

 the former is used to indicate the fundamental facts, the latter, 

 the details of anatomy. This arrangement should meet the ap- 

 proval of the student. 



As previously indicated, the book contains a large number of 

 illustrations, almost one-third of them in colors. It appears as 

 though special emphasis and stress has been placed on quantity 

 rather than quality, as some of the prints are very indistinct 

 and of little value to the student. Some of the prints are new, 

 but most of them are taken from previous editions and other 

 textbooks. 



The Anglicized form of the BNA is used with a few excep- 

 tions where the original BNA or the Latin form is adopted in 

 the English. Since the general adoption of the BNA, anatomical 

 terms have been reduced from 30,000 to 5,000. It seems obvious, 

 therefore, that with the large reduction in the number of terms 

 the student could and should master the Latin anatomical ter- 

 minology adopted by the International Congress at Basel. While 

 the Anglicized form, in most cases, differs but little as a whole 

 from the original BNA, yet in some instances the terms are 

 vastly different, and scarcely recognized by the student. 



The last section on clinical and topographical anatomy could 

 well have been omitted, as they are rarely if ever referred to 

 in the study of systematic anatomy. 



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