Excerpt from A System of Anatomy, Vol. 1 of 2: For the Use of Students of Medicine

Tm: value of the present work having been sufficiently tested by its very diffused use in the profession, and by a third edition being now called for, the editor has been induced to superintend the latter, with a hope that its utility and the public conviction in its favor have been in no wise diminished. The close ness of the connexion between himself and its lamented author, furnished, also, another and a very powerful reason, why he should endeavor by such means as he commanded, to contribute to perpetuate the memory of a man whose literary and professional career had been so conducive to the reputation of his country, and whose philanthropy and suavity of manners had established him so firmly in the affections and confidence of all who knew him.

Several amendments have been introduced by the way of corrections, altera tions and additions. The latter, for the most part, appear between brackets, and in the form of notes, but there are many which could not be marked in such a manner without giving the text a garbled appearance, they therefore appear as portions of the original work.

The whole mass of matter introduced as amendments is greater, indeed, than a superficial perusal of the work would intimate; and the only way for the reader to arrive at it, will be by a careful comparison of the last with the pre sent edition. The editor, however, has been careful not to allow the spirit of change or improvement to affect the work in any points except such as seemed to him absolutely to require it, and where he was fully warranted by the best authorities in Descriptive Anatomy. It would have been sufficiently easy for him to have extended the work considerably beyond its present dimensions; but from its having been originally designed as a text-book of the course of Lectures on Anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania, and for the benefit of practitioners, who are always most assisted by condensed views on this subject, he was apprehensive of perverting or of frustrating its objects by such exten sion. In consequence of which he has principally confined himself to adding where additions were called for by recent discoveries in Anatomy, and by the omission of older ones.

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