Manual of Practical Anatomy, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

The Manual of Practical Anatomy as it is now issued differs very considerably from previous editions. The text has been revised; many details which are not essential have been cut out, whilst at the same time the author has endeavoured to make the descriptive matter more concise. The book therefore has not grown in bulk. The sections in which the chief changes will be manifest are those which treat of the thoracic and abdominal viscera. At the time when the first edition was issued, our ideas of the form and relationships of the various viscera were undergoing rapid evolution. The value of the models prepared under the supervision of Professor His had received full recognition, and attempts were being made in various quarters to verify his results by similar and other methods. In the preface to that edition the author took the opportunity of pointing out that such specimens and models could only be regarded as giving one of the many different forms which are assumed by internal organs in connection with changes in the attitude of the body, and in connection with the alterations which are constantly going on in the living individual in the state of the hollow viscera.
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