A pocket atlas of the descriptive anatomy of the human body / by J.N. Masse ; translated from the last Paris edition and edited by Granville Sharp Pattison.

  • Masse, J. N. (Joseph Nicolas), 1811-
Date:
[1845?]
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Credit: A pocket atlas of the descriptive anatomy of the human body / by J.N. Masse ; translated from the last Paris edition and edited by Granville Sharp Pattison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    editor, is a great objection against their use. The pocket form of the Anatomical Atlas of Professor Masse enables the student to make it his constant companion. He places it before his eye as he lis- tens to the demonstration of the professor in the lecture-room; and on his return home, on his ex- amining the plates, the subjects of which he has heard demonstrated, the lesson taught by his teach- er is forcibly recalled to his mind. In the dissect- ing-room, the Pocket Atlas serves as a guide to the student in the prosecution of his dissections; it not only teaches him how to expose the organs, the structure of which he is investigating, but the engravings so clearly exhibit them to his eye, and the text furnishes such satisfactory information as to the name and locality of every part of the struc- ture he has unveiled, that the necessity for the as- sistance of a demonstrator is, in a great measure, obviated. To the physician or surgeon who has no means of referring to the subject, Masse's Atlas will be found an invaluable work for reference. When the former wishes to refer to the position of any particular viscus, and to study its relations, or when symptoms depending on nervous connex- ion arise in disease which he cannot explain, re- ferring to this Atlas, all his difficulties are removed. When the latter prepares himself for the perform- ance of a surgical operation, and when, in vain, he attempts to recall to his mind surgical relations long since seen, and now only confusedly remem-