Author: James Lawrence Cabell

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-08-19

Total Pages: 20

ISBN-13: 9781391487052

Excerpt from Lecture Introductory to the Course on Anatomy and Surgery, in the University of Virginia, for the Session of 1837-8 When the first teaches us simply the exterior conforma tion of organs, their volume, situation in the body, den sity and other physical properties, it is termed Special or Descriptive Anatomy. This was the first mode of descrip tion of organs pursued by the ancient Anatomists, and has by the successive discoveries of zealous investigators, reach ed a degree of perfection yet to be obtained in other branches of Anatomical Science. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries especially, the labours of the great Italian Anatomists had so nearly exhausted the field of discovery, that little else was left for their successors, than to classify these known facts, and thus adapt them for all the applications of which they were susceptible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.