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the dorsal ixincreas acrrssort/ pannra.s\ the bias of human anatomy is 

 apparent. In this rcsprct Professor Wilder's rejected principle ought 

 not to be abandoned. 'J'lie (iernian committee has adopted thirty- 

 four of the forty terms sanctioned by the American Neurological 

 Association; in ten of these, however, nouns which had been dropped 

 as superfluous are retained. In general, the committee declined to 

 introduce new terms, to combine nouns and adjectives, or to eliminate 

 syllables or letters for brevity. It followed Professor Wilder's advice 

 in preferring descriptive to personal names, definitely retaining only 

 two of the latter, Wolffian and MueUerian. Intestinal glands, parotid 

 duct, splenic nodule, and renal corpuscle replace glands of Lieber- 

 kuehn, Stenson's duct, and Malpighian corpuscle, the last term having 

 been applied to radically different parts of the spleen and kidney. 



After a trial of more than ten years this anatomical nomenclature 

 adopted at Basle, and known consequently as the BNA, has become 



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use whatever English efjuivalent he desires for the ol 

 Students are strongly advised, however, to use t 

 terms as English words. The Latin terms are tli 

 ones." We agree with Profcs.sor Barker that "th( 

 decision to adopt these terms is reached, the better 



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