Lectures illustrative of various subjects in pathology and surgery / by Sir Benjamin C. Brodie.

  • Brodie, Benjamin, Sir, 1783-1862.
Date:
1846
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    of the heavenly bodies, and the other their motions. But to be a good anatomist, the student must labour in the dissecting-room; he must unravel the structures of the human body with his own hands, and examine every thing for himself. The impressions which dissection leaves upon his mind not only are accurate, but they will be lasting ; while, if he trusts to those which he receives from the discourses and exhibitions in the lecture-room, he will find them to be evanescent. Such is the connection of the different parts of the animal system, and so dependent are they on each other, that it would be hazardous to regard the knowledge of any one of them as altogether useless. But there are some parts of which a general knowledge is all that is required. It would be an unprofitable waste of time to trace all the artificial divisions which may be made of the deep- seated muscles of the spine, or the varieties which occur in the minute ramifications of the veins and arteries. On the other hand, there are some parts, such as the bones and muscles of the extre- mities, the distribution of the principal nerves and larger vessels, the structure of the viscera, which cannot be too sedulously and minutely studied; and no one is fitted to undertake the practice of operative surgery, who is not familiar with the exact relative situation of the parts concerned in surgical operations. During the first season of your education, you will find that the labour of acquiring a competent knowledge of anatomy is such that you will have but little time to bestow on other studies. The