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of the science ; but the external anatomy they have 

 examined for themselves through the whole class, 

 and, they trust, not without some new light being 

 thrown upon the subject ; particularly by pointing 

 out and giving names to many parts never before 

 noticed. 



In the Terminology, or what, to avoid the bar- 

 barism of a word compounded of Latin and Greek, 

 they would beg to call the Orismology of the science, 

 they have endeavoured to introduce throughout a 

 greater degree of precision and concinnity, dividing 

 it into general and partial Orismology ; under the 

 former head, defining such terms as relate to Sub- 

 stance, Resistance, Density, Proportion, Figure, 

 Form, Superficies (under which are introduced 

 Sculpture, Clothing, Colour, &c.), Margin, Termi- 

 nation, Incision, Ramification, Division, Direction, 

 Situation, Connection, Arms, &c. ; and under the 

 latter, those that relate to the body and its parts 

 and members, considered in its great subdivisions of 

 Head, Trunk, and Abdomen. In short, they may 

 rest their claim of at least aiming at considerable 

 improvement in this department upon the great 

 number of new terms, and alterations of old ones, 

 which they have introduced, — in external Anatomy 

 alone falling little short of 150. If it should be 

 thought by any one that they have made too many 

 changes, they would remind him of the advice of 

 Bergman to Morveau, when reforming the nomen- 

 clature of Chemistry, the soundness of which Dugald 

 Stewart has recognised : — Ne faites grace d au- 

 cune denomination impropre. Ceux qui savent dejd, 

 entendront toujours ; ceux qui ne savent pas encore, 

 entendront plutotJ^^ 



