Elements of the general and minute anatomy of man and the mammalia : chiefly after original researches / by Fr. Gerber ; to which are added, notes and an appendix, comprising researches on the anatomy of the blood, chyle, lymph, thymous fluid, tubercle, &c., by George Gulliver.

  • Gerber, Fr.
Date:
1842
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Credit: Elements of the general and minute anatomy of man and the mammalia : chiefly after original researches / by Fr. Gerber ; to which are added, notes and an appendix, comprising researches on the anatomy of the blood, chyle, lymph, thymous fluid, tubercle, &c., by George Gulliver. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the ANATOMY OF ANOMALY, Or ANOMALOUS ANA- TOMY, PHILOSOPHICAL or TRANSCENDENTAL ANA- TOMY. When anatomy is cultivated merely as a science, and in books, it is spoken of as theo- retical ANATOMY; when researches are under- taken in the bodies of men, animals, &c. it is known as practical anatomy, or the art of dissection. The art of dissection is systematically pursued when the various, especially similar, parts of the subject are exposed in their sequence or connexions. When the several parts, again, especially of dissimilar nature, which enter into the constitution of each particular district of the body are exhibited in their several situations, and in their mutual mechanical relations, the study acquires the name of sur- gical or regional anatomy. Finally, anatomy is divided into general and special. The busi- ness of the general anatomy is to take cogni- sance of the most simple and minute, or elementary parts of organic bodies, and of the union of these in the composition of particular organs^ such as the brain, the lungs, the liver, &c., and of certain systems into which they are found susceptible of arrangement, such as the fibrous, the muscular, the glandular, the nervous, &c. General Anatomy, further, under the name of Histology, studies the texture and mode of formation of the different com- pound organs, and indicates the reasons for the diversities they present. Special or descriptive anatomy, again, considers the forms, situations, relations, connexions, and modes of distribution of the several organs or systems which make up the body.