Download or read book Surgical Anatomy (Classic Reprint) written by John A. Craigie Macewen and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-16 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Surgical Anatomy It IS hoped that the aim will commend itself to medical men, and to students of surgery and of anatomy, and that they Will find the detail given sufficient to obviate frequent reference to systematic text-books of anatomy. Generally, the author has followed the teaching of the standard British and Continental Works, and to these he gladly. Acknowledges his indebtedness. On a number of points, however-as, for example, regarding the function of the periosteum - he has followed that of his teacher, Sir William Macewen, whose opinions are based not merely upon clinical experience, but also in many cases upon long Series of experiments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.