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Hand-Atlas of Human Anatomy, Vol. 1: Bones, Joints, Ligaments (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Spalteholz, Werner

 
9781333776404: Hand-Atlas of Human Anatomy, Vol. 1: Bones, Joints, Ligaments (Classic Reprint)

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Prelace. The appearance of Spalteholz s Atlas a few years ago was welcomed alike by teachers and students of anatomy. So useful is this book to students who desire to study anatomy in the dissecting room that without any effort on my part it has become the favorite aid to the students of anatomy at the Johns Hopkins University. I ts value to English and American students not acquainted with the German language is now greatly increased through the admirable translation of the text into English by Professor Barker. The main object of studying anatomy is to obtain a mental image of the human body rather than to memorize numerous terms as is too often the aim in our medical schools, especially in A merica. When the study of anatomy is transferred from the lecture room, text book and quiz-compend to the dissecting room it becomes one of the best disciplinary studies for medical students and at the same time gives them most useful knowledge by the inductive method of study. In the dissecting room the student obtains the greatest aid from the instructor who teaches him the art of dissection and guides him in methodical study. Next in importance is a good text book which should always be at the students side in order that he may study the dissection of the body as it proceeds. The study of anatomy would be relatively easy were the student familiar with the subject before he begins it. The rule that the student should acquire as much knowledge as possible of a region before he begins to dissect it is good but has its limitations because it is only through the work itself that the interest of the student, and thereby his instruction, can be kept up. Just at this time an Atlas proves to be of the greatest value. Pictures of dissections, true to nature, aid the imagination of the student enormously and thus guide his work from the known to the unknown. It follows that t
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