Excerpt from Demonstrations of Anatomy: Being a Guide to the Dissection of the Human Body

Anatomy may be studied in two different methods, the one demonstrative, and the other descriptive: - the former treats of the parts only as they are exposed in dissection, and of their relative position, the latter gives minute details of objects unseen, describing the different structures without reference to the order in which they appear, and has been very generally employed in the numerous works of instruction in practical anatomy, but every one acquainted with the difficulties to be overcome by the young dissector will readily admit that this method is insufficient as a guide to his progress.

To supply this deficiency the present work, designed and completed from the subject, and confirmed by experience, is humbly submitted to the student, in the hope that his labours will be diminished, and the advantages to be gained in the pursuit of practical knowledge increased. In the execution of the plan, the great divisions of the body which are generally established, viz. head and neck, thorax, back, extremities, and abdomen, have been placed in different sections, and the dissection of each has been conducted by the employment of successive stages, determined either by certain apparently natural limits, or by those most convenient in practice, - by means of full directions for the performance of the different steps, - by describing at one time only so much of a part as is visible, - and by noting each as it appears.

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