The student's guide to surgical anatomy : being a description of the most important surgical regions of the human body and intended as an introduction to operative surgery / by Edward Bellamy.

  • Bellamy, Mr. (Edward)
Date:
1873
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Credit: The student's guide to surgical anatomy : being a description of the most important surgical regions of the human body and intended as an introduction to operative surgery / by Edward Bellamy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    altered positions of bones when dislocated compared with the normal ones. In studying- Reg-ional Anatomy the parts must be regarded as being wounded, either by the surgeon's knife or by some weapon, or displaced by accident. In the various stages of a dissection made in the pro- secution of Descriptive Anatomy, it is often the end and aim of the dissector to make a clean or pretty preparation, in following out the different vessels, nerves, &c., and for this purpose it is quite right that all pains be taken, but the student must remember that tlie more he cleans, the more he destro3's the actual relation of the parts as they would be met with in an operation; and, moreover, he must re- member that the very fascite he so studiously removes, are of the greatest importance in Surgical Anatomy, and their i^emoval destroys surgical continuity. The want of material in our schools is the great drawback to the study of Topographical Anatomy, as bodies cannot be spared for such sections and special examinations as a consideration of the various operative proceedings of surgery suggests.