Volume 1

Quain's elements of anatomy.

  • Bryce, Thomas Hastie editor.
Date:
1908
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    PREFACE The present edition of ' Quain's Anatomy ' will appear in four volumes, of which this one, containing the Embryology, is the first. The remaining volumes will comprise respectively General and Visceral Anatomy; the Nervous System and Sense Organs; and the Bones, Ligaments, Muscles, and Blood-vessels. Each volume will be complete in itself and will serve as a text-book for the particular subject or subjects with which it deals. Thus the first volume is intended to form a com- plete text-book of Human Embryology, the second a text-book of Histology and Visceral Anatomy, the third a text-book of Neurology, while the fourth will deal with the systems which are not included in the second and third volumes. The work has been completely re-edited and brought up to date. The volume on Embryology, which was written for the previous edition by Professor Schafer, has in the present edition been entrusted to Dr. Bryce, who has re-written it. and has added a large number of illustrations. The advances in our knowledge of human embryology have necessitated considerable additions to the text, and this, combined with the profuseness of illustration, has resulted in some increase in bulk of the volume ; but, in spite of the wealth of detail with which the subject is treated, this is by no means excessive. There has been some saving of space by the omission of the bibliographical list which in the former edition followed each subject. These lists, although at the time useful, are no longer necessary, since they are to be found in a very complete form in the compendious ' Handbuch der Entwickelungslehre,' by numerous authors, which has lately been published under the editorship of Professor 0. Hertwig, as well as in the earlier ' Bibliography of Vertebrate Embryology,' by Professor Minot. In the matter of illustrations the volume is indebted to the skill of Mr. A. Kirk- patrick Maxwell for the original drawings of figs. 116, 118, 119, 121, 122, 129, 130, and 136, as well as for some adaptations of figures from other authors. For the photographic illustrations of his preparations which are reproduced in figs. 74, 156, 157, 162, 163, 164, 176, 220, and 246, Dr. Bryce desires to signify his obligation to Dr. J. H. Teacher. All other original drawings and diagrams, both in black-and-white and in colour, and most of the adaptations, are from his own pencil. In addition to the original illustrations, Mr. Gustav Fischer of Jena has supplied •« cliches of a number of valuable figures, many of them from the well-known text-book of Professor Kollmann. Dr. Bryce further begs to acknowledge the obligation he is under to Professor J. Graham Kerr for reading the proof-sheets of Section I. The Index to this volume has been prepared by Miss Agnes Picken, M.A., M.B.Ch.B., Demonstrator of Anatomy in the Department for Women, University of Glasgow.
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