Volume 1

The microscopic anatomy of the human body, in health and disease. Illustrated with numerous drawings in colour / By Arthur Hill Hassall, M.B.

  • Hassall, Arthur Hill, 1817-1894.
Date:
1849
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The microscopic anatomy of the human body, in health and disease. Illustrated with numerous drawings in colour / By Arthur Hill Hassall, M.B. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    structure of the several tissues and organs, and this with a pre-eminent degree of success. Amongst the more remark- able of these investigators the following may be enumerated: Gillliver, Martin Barry, Busk, Addison, Kiernan, Sharpey, Goodsir, Tomes, Toynbee, Johnson, Simon, Todd and Bow- man, Quekett, Erasmus Wilson, Hughes Bennett, Carpenter, Rainey, Handheld Jones, and Gairdner. The results of the labours of these observers have not as yet, however, been embodied in a separate work ; but some of them have been mixed up with works on descriptive anatomy and physiology, as in Sharpey’s edition of Quain’s Anatomy, in Carpenter’s “ Principles ” and “ Manual ” of Physiology, and in Todd and Bowman’s “ Physiological Anatomy.” The last is an admirable book, full of original research and im- portant facts. Now, one of the purposes, the accomplishment of which has been attempted in the following pages, has been the col- lecting together of the numerous communications on general anatomy to be found scattered through the pages of our different scientific periodicals, and their combination into a whole. The further objects which the author has had in view in the production of this work have been simplicity of desci’ip- tion, fidelity of representation, and the addition of such facts and particulars as have occurred to himself in the course of his own investigations; and he may take this opportunity of observing, that in but few instances has he written upon a subject without previous investigation. That a work similar in character to the present was needed is proved by the foregoing details; and that the objects above referred to have been, to some extent at least, accomplished, is shown by the favourable reception which has hitherto been accorded to this undertaking. The author considers it right, in justice to himself, that certain disadvantages under which the work has been pro-