The anatomist's manual, or, A treatise on the manner of preparing all the parts of anatomy : followed by a complete description of these parts / by J.P. Maygrier ; translated from the 4th French edition by Gunning S. Bedford.

  • Maygrier, J. P. (Jacques Pierre), 1771-1835.
Date:
1832
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    4//*, Mode of studying and teaching Anatomy. In the present state of anatomical science, it is very difficult to say what is the best mode to pursue, in order to cultivate it, and hasten its progress. This branch of medicine takes such a flight, its discoveries are so nume- rous, its facts so multiplied, the points of view under which it may be embraced so fruitful, that we can only offer some general rules. The teaching of anatomy having for its object the instruction of students, professors of this science should adopt a plan, a uniform method, from which their pupils may derive the greatest advan- tages. For if modern anatomists, in their noble enthu- siasm and brilliant conceptions, do not specify some object towards which all their labors should be directed, then I am fearful that, of such united efforts to arrive at a perfection so much desired, there will only remain the painful certainty of not having known the true means of attaining it. I most ardently trust that my fears in this respect may prove chimerical. Being no longer able to separate anatomy from physio- logy, and this latter being the result of knowledge derived from the former, it is absolutely necessary for the professor of anatomy,charged with the direction of students, to unite these two branches of the same science. But the facts which appertain to both are so numerous, that it would be very difficult to teach them together. This truth has been experienced by all those who have been occupied in teaching anatomy; it is for this reason that anatomy and physiology each form a body of distinct and separate doctrines, having the same object, but proceeding by different channels. I shall not now discuss the question, whether it is more advantageous for science and more useful to students, that physiology be taughf separately; or combined with anatomy ; time and experience will decide in favor of one or other of these methods, the excellence of which will be justified by its success.