Excerpt from Schematic Anatomy, or Diagrams, Tables and Notes Treating of the Association and Systematic Arrangement of Structural Details of Human AnatomyIt is essential for the Reader to understand, that as the Tables and Diagrams cannot be used without reference to the full descriptions and representations given in the various Textbooks of Anatomy, the former are in no way intended to take the place of the latter, still less are they intended to supplant the only method of obtaining a real knowledge of Anatomy. Via, actual work in the dissecting-room. They are meant rather to supplement those means of study. Their presumed value lies in the clearer knowledge to be obtained by comparing them with the diwected part: the Ding-am is thus imprinted, as it were, upon the Region, and a more lasting mental impression is carried away by the observer. The facts to be nowd are first displayed on the dead subject, and then fixed in the memory by means of the cos-responding Schema or Diagram.It is the experience of every Medical Student, in consequence of the enormous amount of material with which he is to overload his memory, that facts such as those with which Anatomy deals, being as they are isolated and independent, hung together by no uniting bond, and amenable apparently to no law, are speedily crowded out by fresh matter and forgotten, or, at the best, left before the mind as dim and blurred pictures, intermingled and confused That there is often, however, some method of associating together such details - as, for example, by their analogies and dissimilarities, their points of agreement or antithesis - it is the object of the present volume to show. In it the design above indicawd will be apparent, both in the Diagrams, where for a number of ideas one idea is generally substituted, and also in the Text, where common or opposite characteristics of facts or groups of facts are used for the purpose of classification.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.