Engravings of the arteries, illustrating the second volume of The anatomy of the human body, and serving as an introduction to The surgery of the arteries / By Charles Bell.

  • Bell, Charles, Sir, 1774-1842
Date:
1811
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Credit: Engravings of the arteries, illustrating the second volume of The anatomy of the human body, and serving as an introduction to The surgery of the arteries / By Charles Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    this last respect they are not deficient,) that I would place their merit. When the import- ance of the study of the Arteries is considered —a point so fully enforced and illustrated in the volume of the text to which I mean these plates to be attached—this book must, I think, be an acquisition to the student, since J am conscious that I should myself have found it to be so in the commencement of my studies; it is with this feeling that I offer it with confi- dence to the public. I am assured, also, that the study of the Blood-vessels and Nerves from Plates, prepares us better for undertaking any surgical operation than that of bare descrip- tion, however accurate, however simple, or however constantly the true practical infer- ences may be kept in view. It 1s upon the eye that the impression must be made, which is to enable us, in looking upon a limb, to mark the course of the Arteries: Drawings are a kind of notes, too, more easily consulted; and bring to the mind, in a more lively man- ner, all that was associated in our first studies. In following the course of the Arteries, we must have continual occasion to observe, that if one branch deviate from the more general