PREFACE 
These outlines are not intended to supply the place either of 
a teacher oi a text-book. They are the result of several years’ 
experience in an attempt to work out an elementary laboratory 
course in anatomy which might serve as a scientific basis for 
an accompanying course of lectures in Human Anatomy and 
Physiology for undergraduates in Smith College. 
Because of the impracticability of the use of human material 
for this work, except in the case of the skeleton and of certain 
demonstration dissections, the attempt has been made to base the 
laboratory work upon the dissection of a variety of mammals, 
using freely, for comparison, as large a supply of accurate manikins 
and models illustrating the anatomy of the human body, as it is 
possible to obtain. As material for laboratory dissection, there¬ 
fore, the course here outlined makes use not only of the smaller 
mammals, but of such portions of the larger mammals as may be 
easily obtained in quantities sufficient for large classes through the 
agency of local markets or directly from abattoirs. 
For the smaller mammals, rabbits, white rats, and guinea 
pigs are used in most cases rather than cats, because of the 
great ease with which these rodents may be bred upon our own 
premises, and the consequent relief from the vexations of spirit 
arising from the morbid sentimentality, and unjust criticism, 
which are the invariable accompaniments of an attempt to 
obtain a sufficiently large number of cats to supply the needs of a 
laboratory. There is no reason, however, why cats or dogs 
should not be substituted for rodents for much of the labora¬ 
tory work, provided a sufficient number of specimens can be 
obtained, and for the most part the same outlines of work could 
be used with such slight modifications as the teacher would 
naturally suggest, or the intelligent student discover. 
Considerably more is included in this outline than can be done 
by the average undergraduate class in 150 hours of laboratory 
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