Excerpt from Including a Special Section on the Fundamental Principles of Anatomy
The practice of assuming too much knowledge on the part of the student I believe to be wrong in principle. At any rate, we must remember that this book is written, not for those who know anatomy, but for beginners.
To impress on the student the necessity of tracing muscles to their exact origin and insertion, illustrations of bones having such attachments indicated in color have been introduced. These and nearly all other illustrations are from the work to which the text most frequently refers - "Morris Anatomy." We wish also to express our thanks to both author and publisher for the use of the excellent diagrams from Potter's "Compend of Anatomy," and for the many illustrations of the muscles taken from Gould's (Illustrated) "Medical Dictionary." In addition to these we have contributed about sixty original drawings, for the most part diagrammatic. We wish also to express our thanks to Dr. Theodor Tieken, Dr. F. R. Sherwood, and Dr. D. Loring for valuable suggestions and to Dr. W. A. Mansfield in particular, who read the original copy and made timely corrections.
A book that would fail to give due consideration to those structures of the body which can be easily demonstrated on the cadaver by any careful student would fall short of the objects of this work. A book that would attempt in approximately 400 pages to give the same that Morris devotes 1400 pages to, would, to be charitable, be just 1000 pages too small.
The sequence of structures revealed by dissection, and the great number of illustrations in the book, render an index almost superfluous. In fact, by the aid of the description of the illustration a given muscle or vessel can be found with certainty, even without an index. Still, to make the book as convenient as possible, a brief index is appended.
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