Outlines of a course of dissections, for the use of the students of anatomy at St. Thomas's Hospital.

  • Green, Joseph Henry, 1791-1863
Date:
1815
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Outlines of a course of dissections, for the use of the students of anatomy at St. Thomas's Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    throughout the body :—They are the ele- ments as it were of anatomical, knowledge. But when these are known, - another mode of enquiry ought to be resorted to, that of examining the blending and interlacement of these parts together, as they are enter- ing into the composition of the different portions of the body. It is from under- standing this grouping of parts, that we are enabled to plan and foresee all the steps of an operation, or note the reasons why it may not be undertaken; whereas without this investigation of them as a whole, our acquaintance with the indivi- dual and imsulated systems can neither give us confidence, nor the knowledge es- sential to the practice of surgery. The ’ chief inducement indeed for undertaking these outlines, has been to clear away some of the difficulties from this part of anatomy ; —it has been strengthened by observing the perplexity and inability of students to determine the objects of their enquiry,—. by feeling the necessity but impractica- bility otherwise of fixing and explaining a plan, and the impossibility of particular