The object of this work is to present to the student of medicine and the practitioner removed from the schools, a series of dissections demonstrative of the relative anatomy of the principal regions of the human body.
The dissections in Plates 7 and 8 exhibit both these modes of relation.
There is proof that Hunter anatomized at least five hundred different species of animals, exclusive of repeated dissections of different individuals of the same species, besides the dissections of plants to a considerable amount.
The dissections of the head are perhaps the most extraordinary feat, and will never be surpassed.
We can claim the right of causal analysis, and assume that our dissections have laid bare the inner springs of the connection of events.
Percepts are given in relation; but concepts, being ideal dissections of the perceptual flux, are discontinuous terms which have to be related by an act of thought, because they were made for this very purpose of distinction.
In France human dissections were attended with such dangers that the young Vesalius transferred his field of labors to Italy, where such investigations were covertly permitted, if not openly countenanced.
By the time of Mondino dissections were becoming more frequent, and he himself is known to have dissected and demonstrated several bodies.
Before the close of the thirteenth century, however, a reaction had begun, physicians were protected, and dissections were occasionally sanctioned by the ruling monarch.
Having once conceived this idea, Descartes began a series of dissections and experiments upon the lower animals, to find, if possible, further proof of this general law.
All through the early Middle Ages dissections of human bodies had been forbidden, and even dissection of the lower animals gradually fell into disrepute because physicians detected in such practices were sometimes accused of sorcery.
And this I have frequently experienced in my dissections of veins.
In teaching anatomy, while the learned teachers explained the parts as exposed, the dissections were left to barbers as being unworthy of an educated medical gentleman.
Secret dissections had been practiced in Harvard College so early as 1771, but the practice was against the law even for sixty years later in Massachusetts.
It is probable, also, that he studied in Paris, and certain that later, in Bologna, he saw dissections made.
There are numerous drawings ofdissections scattered through the Journal about this period.
Leonardo proposed after making a large number of dissections to write a text-book of anatomy.
Not a single great artist of the Renaissance failed to make dissections for himself, and the greater the artist, the more dissections, as a rule, we know he made.
We have dissections from Raphael and from Michelangelo and from many others as well as from Leonardo da Vinci.
In recent years, however, the republication of the sketches of his dissections shows that Leonardo da Vinci might have written a very wonderful textbook of anatomy and that his plates are still valuable for the study of professed anatomists.
The sketches of dissections of flowers found in his notebooks show how well he anticipated many methods of study and details of knowledge in botany supposed to be much more modern.
These dissections were made at a time when, if we would believe certain of our modern historians of science in its relation to religion, the Church had absolutely forbidden dissection.
Nor can any real knowledge of the members of the human body be obtained from a single dissection, for this a number of dissections are required.
During the past twenty years, however, a series of Leonardo's sketches made from his dissections have been republished from a number of {25} collections of the originals in important libraries in Europe.
He had a series ofdissections of these mounted, also loose dissections and elaborate manuscript descriptions.
Huxley's own dissections had led him on to a complete survey of the genus, both wild and domestic.
He made endless dissections and drawings, and, above all, studied their minute anatomy with the microscope.
Huxley was by training and habit of mind a naturalist, busy with dissections and drawings, pursuing his branch of science for itself and with no concern as to its possible relation to philosophical speculation or religious dogma.
Almost needless to say, he must have made many dissections to obtain such clear details of information, and, as we shall see, he probably did make many hundreds.
It is after all quite easy to understand that if dissections were common, there would be no records of most of them, as they would be too commonplace for chroniclers to mention.
In the presence of such detailed regulations, the absence almost entirely of details as to the actual performance of dissections can mean very little.
It is easy to understand that friends of the dead would always prevent dissections as far as they could.
This would seem to indicate that dissections were quite common and that the occasional records of them give no proper idea of their actual number.
Even these few dissections were due to some favoring chance or the laxity of the ecclesiastical authorities, or Mondino might have paid dear for his audacity.
For two centuries Rome was the most successful rival of Bologna, and hundreds of dissections were done in the Papal Medical School.
His practical temper of mind was demonstrated by a revolution that he worked in the method of doing dissections at the time.
It is evident beyond all doubt, from what he says, that dissectionswere quite common.
The dissections were such ordinary occurrences as not to deserve special mention except for some particular reason.
The dissections in Paris used to be performed by the barber-surgeons, as a rule rather ignorant men, who knew little of their work beyond the barest outline of the technics of dissection.
Vesalius began a new era in the history of anatomy by insisting on doing the dissections himself.
Every opportunity to make dissections was gladly seized, and Vesalius's influence enabled him to obtain a large amount of excellent anatomical material.
The decretal of Boniface was construed universally as prohibitingdissections for any purpose whatever.
His far-ranging work in Comparative Anatomy was based upon dissections by his own hand, executed rapidly and broadly, going straight to the essential point without any finikin elaboration, and recorded in very fine anatomical drawings.
Thus the general structure of the larger species may be made out by means of simple dissections requiring no extraordinary skill on the part of the worker, and with appliances that may be obtained at a low cost.
The dissections in the Hunterian Collection of specimens were made by me in 1865.
When revising the entozoa of the Hunterian Collection in 1866 I explained the specimens anddissections in accordance with Lubbockâs views.
Fitz, from a series of dissections and preparations made by Dr H.
It is worth while to mention that in Frankfort, for instance, during the expiration of 65 years, but seven dissections were made, and that these were always accompanied by a celebration which lasted several days.
It was so high, however, and so dark that dissections even in broad daylight could only be made visible by torchlight.
Nearly all of the dissections which Valsalva required for his demonstrations during lecture hours, or for the illustrations of his books, are said to have been made by Morgagni under the master's personal supervision.
It was while teaching at Bologna that Vesalius made the famous series of dissectionswhich formed the subjects of the illustrations for his great work on anatomy.
The first regular practical teaching of anatomy by means of {32} dissections of human bodies and demonstrations on the cadaver was done at Bologna by Mondino at the beginning of the fourteenth century.
Dissections show that the flexion of the finger is the result of a chronic interstitial overgrowth or fibrositis and subsequent contraction of the palmar fascia and of its prolongations on to the sides of the fingers.
The cervical sympathetic cord and its ganglia may be injured in the neck by stabs or gun-shot wounds, or in the course of deep dissections in the neck; and in injuries of the lower part of the cervical enlargement of the spinal cord (p.
I know not that by living dissections any discovery has been made by which a single malady is more easily cured.
Consequently, less use was made of the results of the dissections than was originally planned.
Guy de Chauliac who studied there during the first half of the Fourteenth Century says he saw many dissections made there.
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