Excerpt from A Manual of Practical Anatomy, Vol. 1 of 3: The Upper and Lower ExtremitiesPractical Anatomy. He was reared and matured in the ever-famous Edinburgh School of Anatomy, to him fell the fruitful experience Of equipping and developing the newly-founded chair of Anatomy in the University College of South Wales, later, at King's College, his work lay in the centre of the great London Schools, where the teaching of anatomy finds its most practical expression. He could bring to bear, too, experience gained in the actual pursuit of his profession, without which no teacher can place the thousands of facts that lie within the bounds of Practical Anatomy in their just perspective. Lastly, he possessed those rarer (rifts - the kev to his students' hearts and an ever-ready ear for their difficulties, and by these he learned how to adjust and make his methods more and more effective. This work is evidence that he profited by these opportunities to the fullest extent.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.