A manual of human anatomy : descriptive, practical, and general / by Robert Knox.

  • Knox, Robert, 1791-1862.
Date:
1853
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A manual of human anatomy : descriptive, practical, and general / by Robert Knox. 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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    and which since then have been all but universally adopted. It is a work intended for the class-room, the private study, the dissecting-room. I have done my best to make it at once prac- tical, systematic, minute. Study deeply the osteology and myology; compare the descriptions you will find in this work with nature, and your future anatomical studies will prove a pleasant recreation rather than a painful and it may be an unsatisfactory pursuit. To the question frequently put as to the utility of minute anatomy, I reply that this invalu- able knowledge will enable you to reject many idle specu- lations in physiology and pathology daily offered you ; by it you may at least check, if not destroy, empiricism, and com- bat rash Surgery, come from whom it may. It is, in brief, the only torch which Medicine possesses to guide her on the obscure, experimental, conjectural course she seems doomed to follow. In the Iconographic portion of the work, it will be found that no pains have been spared by Dr. Westmacott to render the Manual as useful as possible. To Professor Partridge, of King’s College, I owe the valuable recommendation to use the drawings of Herschfeldt in the section on the Organs of Sense, in preference to every other. This advice, which Dr. Westmacott and I unhesitatingly adopted, came with double force from a gentleman at once the minute anatomist and excellent artist.