Volume 1

General and descriptive anatomy of the domestic animals / by John Gamgee and James Law.

Date:
1861-1862
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: General and descriptive anatomy of the domestic animals / by John Gamgee and James Law. 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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    2 Treatise on the Anatomy of the Horse, which has rendered the most essential service; but since the period when PercivaH’s Anatomy proved a great boon to veterinary students, Anatomy has made immense strides, and one great division, viz., General Anatomy or Histology, has been created. To aid the Veterinary Student with a treatise representing the state of Anatomical knowledge at the present day, and em- bodying all that is required in a text-book written for a prac- tical purpose, is the object of the work now offered to the Public. The Part now ready includes the elements of General Anatomy and the study of the Bones. It is copiously illustrated; and a remarkable feature in the work is the introduction of a plate of the skeleton of the renowned race-horse Eclipse. This skeleton, purchased for the New Veterinary College from the late Bracy Clark, presents characteristic points which, on comparison with ordinary bones, indicate at once why the endurance and speed of Eclipse have rarely if ever been approached, and, we believe, never surpassed. The skeleton is drawn to a scale of one- tenth. It is proposed, as speedily as possible, to publish the succeed- ing parts, devoted to the Articulations, Muscles, Internal Organs, Circulatory Apparatus, Nervous System and Organs of Repro- duction. The Second Part, on the Joints and Muscles, will be published in December. A chapter will be devoted, at the end of the work, to Regional or Surgical Anatomy, as a guide in the performance of Opera- tions. The whole work will not exceed Thirty Shillings in cost; the First Part, abundantly supplied with engravings, being sold for 12s. EDINBURGH : THOMAS C. JACK, 92, PRINCES STREET. LONDON : SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO.