The anatomy of the human bones, nerves, lacteal sac and duct / By Alexander Monro.

  • Monro, Alexander, 1697-1767.
Date:
1776
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Credit: The anatomy of the human bones, nerves, lacteal sac and duct / By Alexander Monro. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    yee a aa eye ee Ge ACS ee ee «en g 289 f vii | ed, will, I perfuade myfelf, excufe me for not complying with their defire, when they confider the defign of this is to be a {chool-book, and how great the difference is. between inftru¢cting youth in private, and pretending to inform the public. Art. xxiv. vol. v. of Medical Effays and Obfervations, pu-. blifhed in this place, is one of thefe le€tures which: I gave as a commentary on the paragraph (p. 12.) concerning the different kinds of caries. In this edition, I have corrected the miftakes and obfcure paffages which I difcovered in the former; and in fome places I have made the defcriptions more full and exa¢t, aiming all I could to fhun unneceflary minutenefs on the one hand, and a blameable inaccuracy on the other: Whether I have hit that juft medium, is what you and the pub- lic muft now judge. Tam ftill of opinion, that figures of the bones would at any rate have been unneceflary in a book that is intended to be illuftrated and explained by the originals themfelves; but would be much more fo now, when my late in- genious friend Mr, Chefelden, Dr. Albi- nus,