(1) A Treatise on Applied Anatomy (2) The Human Sternum (3) Der Gang des Menschen

Abstract

(1)TO those unfamiliar with the ways of modern medicine the continual appearance of new works on hunian anatomy must cause some surprise. No subject should be better known, for it has been a matter of almost universal study for centuries. At the best, many will conclude, a new text-book on applied anatomy—the kind of anatomy the surgeon and physician more especially need—can only be a resetting of old facts, and an examination of Dr. Taylor's work will show that, to a large extent, the conclusion is justified. The steady advance of surgery necessitates a continual rearrangement of anatomical perspective; the areas of the body which were under a surgical taboo to the septic surgeons of former days are open to the clean operator of modern times. The brain and spinal cord, the cavities of the ear and nose, the organs within the thorax and abdomen, and the great joint cavities of the limbs, have come, one after the other, within the field of everyday surgical procedure during the last thirty years. In his treatment of these parts of the body Dr. Taylor is quite up to date; his pages reflect accurately the best opinion that is to be found in modern text-books of anatomy and surgery. Still, modern advances will not altogether explain the rapid appearance of new works on anatomy or on any other subject; every generation demands its books on science or literature wet from the press.

(1) A Treatise on Applied Anatomy.

By Edward H. Taylor Pp. xxvii + 738; 178 figures and plates. (London: Charles Griffin and Co., Ltd., 1904.) Price 30s. net.

(2) The Human Sternum.

By Andrew Melville Paterson Pp. 89; 10 plates. (London: Published for the University Press of Liverpool by Williams and Norgate, 1904.) Price 10s. net.

(3) Der Gang des Menschen.

v. Teil. Die Kinematik des Beinschwingens. By Otto Fischer. Price 5 marks, vi. Teil. Ueber den Einfluss der Schwere und der Muskeln auf die Schwingbewegung des Beins. By Otto Fischer. Price 4 marks. (Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1904.)