THE 



AMERICAN NATURALIST 



THE SOrRCES OF ANATOMICAL LITERATURE 



PROFESSOR ROY L. MOODIE 

 Department of Anatomy, University op Illinois, Chicago 



The study of anatomical literature has not received the 

 attention that has been given the writings of men in other 

 lines of intellectual endeavor. When we compare, for 

 instance, our knowledge of the literature of anatomy, and 

 the men who have made this literature, with the work that 

 has been done on the history of poetry and the poets, or 

 fiction, or the history of nations, we see how greatly the 

 development of anatomical knowledge and literature has 

 been neglected. Locy^ especially has shown us how this 

 field of study may be used as a field of research in early 

 human documents relating to anatomy. The subject has 

 been further developed by Stieda, Holl,^ Sudhoff,"^ Fors- 

 ter,4 McMurrich,^ Roth,« Toply" and others wlio have con- 

 tributed sundry studies along these lines. Tliat there has 

 been no great amount of attention paid to the subject is 

 probably due to the fact that the subject matter of anat- 



^ Journal of Morphology, Vol. 22, pp. 945-988, 1911. 



^Archiv fur Anatomie und Physiologic, Anat, Abth., Jahrgang, 1905, 

 p. 96. 



3 Karl SudholF ia editor of the Archiv fiir die Geschichte der Mcdizin, to 



« Medical Library and JIxs 

 Archiv fur Anatomir u. 

 p. 77. 



