Excerpt from A Manual of Surgical Anatomy

The production of a new book on Surgical Anatomy calls for a word of explanation. For some years past, while acting as Demonstrators of Anatomy in the University of Edinburgh, we have been struck by the fact that senior students and graduates, when working in the dissecting room, seldom make use of any of the numerous excellent works on Surgical Anatomy. They seem to prefer standard books on Regional Anatomy, and while they assimilate the anatomical facts, they frequently fail to appreciate their surgical application. Recognising that, when possible, Surgical Anatomy should be studied from dis sections, we have endeavoured to present the subject m a form suitable for use in the dissecting room. The general framework of this book 15 founded on a series of lectures on Surgical Anatomy delivered by one of the authors in connection with the Edinburgh post-graduate Course.

While it has been found impossible to avoid encroaching on the subject of Operative Surgery, an endeavour has been made to bring into prominence the anatomy of the operations, excluding as far as possible the details of surgical technique. In order to keep the size of the volume within bounds, it has been found necessary to omit, almost entirely, the descriptions of amputations of the limbs.

On account of the frequency with which tuberculous disease of bones and joints starts in, and spreads from, the ends of the diaphyses (metaphyses), special attention has been given to the anatomical relations which these regions and the adjacent epiphyses bear to the capsules and synovial reflections of the corresponding joints and in order to emphasise the importance of these relations, we have included a number of figures in which they are illustrated.

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