The dissector, or, Practical and surgical anatomy / By Erasmus Wilson ... with one hundred and six illustrations. Modified and re-arranged by Paul B. Goddard.

  • Wilson, Erasmus, Sir, 1809-1884.
Date:
1844
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Provider: This material has been provided by the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Lamar Soutter Library, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

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    THE DISSECTOR. CHAPTER I. DISSECTION. The human body is composed of certain principal struc- tures, which occupy the same relative position to each other, wheresover they be examined. To obtain a good knowledge of these, is, therefore, the first duty of the dissector; the more particularly, that a just conception of their nature and posi- tion will greatly facilitate the future progress of his studies. These parts may be thus arranged, in the order of their su- perposition:— Integument, Arteries, Superficial fascia, Veins, Deep fascia, Lymphatics, Muscles, Nerves, Vessels, Bones and ligaments, and cellular tissue, the common connecting medium of the body, by which they are all held together. The business of dissection, therefore, consists in dividing and turning aside the integument, the superficial fascia, and the deep fascia; in freeing the muscles from their enveloping cellular tissue; in separating them, so as to display the vessels and nerves which lie between them; and in following the lat- ter to their ultimate ramifications. In the same manner the performance of an operation with the aid of the knife, as, for example, the tying of an artery, requires the division of the integument, superficial fascia, and deep fascia, the separation of the muscles, and the finding and 3