Excerpt from Illustrations of Dissections, Vol. 1: In a Series of Original the Size of Life Representing the Dissection
This Volume contains a concise description of a series of Anatomical Plates in folio in a separate Altas (in this edition the Plates arc bound with the text. - Am. Publishers), with some remarks on the practical applications of Anatomical facts to Surgery. The purpose for which tho Plates are designed, and the circumstances connected with their production are explained below.
With tho view of carrying out the pictorial representation of dis-sections, the part of the Human Body to be illustrated is divided into suitable stages or regions; and the muscles, bloodvessels, and nerves of each region arc shown in layers in the natural order of succession, so that their mutual connections may be brought before the eye at one and the same time.
The Illustrations comprise views of the Head and Neck, the upper Limb, the Perin?um, the Abdominal parietes, the Pelvis, and the lower Limb. All the Figures arc drawn of life-size from actual dissections; and they arc printed in colors with the object of making them as true pictures as possible of Nature, and more serviceable as copies for the student to imitate. Only such dissections were prepared for the Drawings as may be commonly seen in the practical Anatomy Room; and the minute detail, whose counterpart the student with average manual dexterity could not produce without some difficulty and loss of time, was intentionally omitted. Delineations of the ligaments, the viscera of the cavities of the Body, and the organs of the Senses, are not included in the Plates now published.
The labor connected with this Work was divided between its two authors, that part being apportioned to each which lie was best fitted by previous knowledge and experience to execute. To Mr. Ford were assigned the original Drawings, and the chromo-lithography; and to him is due the merit of portraying with so much effect and exactness the natural appearance of the parts dissected.
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