Landmarks and surface markings of the human body / by Louis Bathe Rawling.

Date:
1904
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Credit: Landmarks and surface markings of the human body / by Louis Bathe Rawling. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    LANDMARKS AND SURFACE MARKINGS OF THE HUMAN BODY CHAPTER I THE HEAD AND NECK Cranio-Cerebral Topography. Only those surface markings will be given which are of practical value, and as far as possible each landmark will be rendered independent of any other, as by such means any given structure can be rapidly depicted on the surface, the important question of time and of space rendering the more complicated systems, in which it is necessary to map out a network of intersecting lines in order to fix the position of any single structure, of little surgical value. It is necessary, however, to recognise first certain impor- tant bony points, etc. i. The nasion, situated at the base of the nose at the . central point of the naso-frontal suture. Fig. i., 1. 2. The inion, or external occipital protuber- . ance. F'g-'-, 2. A line uniting these two points over the vertex of the skull corresponds in position to the upper attached margin of the falx cerebri, to the mesial longi- tudinal fissure of the brain, and to the superior longi-