Author: Edward Henry Taylor D. Dublin

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-14

Total Pages: 770

ISBN-13: 9780656528561

Excerpt from A Treatise on Applied Anatomy IN undertaking a work upon Applied Anatomy my object has been to provide an account of the regional anatomy of the human body in its more important applications to Medicine and Surgery. It has been my conviction for many years that the subject of anatomy might with advantage be taught to students of medicine more from the applied standpoint and less as an abstract science. Some years ago, at the instigation of Professor Cunningham, a course of lectures in Applied Anatomy was made obligatory in the Medical School of Trinity College, and has been productive of the most gratifying results. Were anatomical teaching conducted more generally on these lines, it would, I have no doubt, help to bridge over the wide gap which separates the dissecting room from the surgical theatre, and render the transition from the one to the other less abrupt; the subject would possess more attraction for the student, it would be more easily remembered, and certainly more useful. Although I have endeavoured to treat the subject of Applied Anatomy in a general way, yet, in the main, the book is surgical; indeed, in some respects its scope might have been more correctly expressed by giving it the title Surgery from the Anatomical Standpoint. The general plan adopted in the arrangement of the text is one which I have found by experience most popular with students in the lecture theatre. Each region is introduced by a concise account of its topographical anatomy, developmental details being supplied where necessary, and subsequently the more important lessons - medical, surgical, and pathological - which are to be derived from it are presented for consideration. 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.