The importance and nature of this Work cannot be better explained, than by the following

PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR.

To

o prevent misapprehension or disappointment on the part of the Reader, I think it necessary to offer a short account of the nature and object of the following Outlines.

During the thirteen years I have had the honour of delivering Lectures upon Anatomy and Surgery in the University of Edinburgh, I have been repeatedly and earnestly entreated, by the Students attending my Class, to publish an abstract of my Course.

I considered it a duty to comply with their request; and the volumes now offered to the world, exhibit the subjects which are explained at large in the progress of a session of six months duration.

The Outlines have been arranged differently from any Treatise with which I am acquainted, and upon a plan which has been sanctioned by the experience nearly of a century, having been adopted by my Grandfather, and observed since his death by my Father and myself.

Though, from the titles of these volumes, they may be supposed to relate to the Anatomy of the Human Body only, in its sound and diseased state; yet, as Physiology is inseparable from Anatomy, it seemed impossible to avoid introducing a few notices on that subject, and also on Animal Chemistry.

The Chemical part of these Outlines merits the particular at

tention of the reader, as it contains much original matter-the result of the researches of my very worthy friend and pupil Mr JOHN DAVY, who, to great assiduity and enthusiasm for the advancement of Chemical science, joins that patience and that acumen which so much distinguish his family.

The Descriptions of the Bones, occupying the greater part of the First Volume, have been taken from my Grandfather's "Osteology; —a book which is now ranked as one of the classics in Anatomical science, and, though published nearly a century ago, still retains its celebrity.

It may not, however, be improper to remark, that, in reprinting the "Osteology," I was under the necessity of making several alterations and additions, and especially in the Physiological and Pathological departments; on which the public may not be disposed to place the less value, when it is stated, that, independently of those suggested by my own experience and ob servation, and the present advanced state of Anatomical science, many of them were derived from an original Commentary, written by my Grandfather for the use of his sons, and from the lectures of my Father.

Descriptions in language, however carefully drawn up, being inadequate to convey distinct ideas on many points of Anatomy, a number of Engravings from the Drawings of the most celebrated draughtsmen, MICHAEL ANGELO BUONAROTTI, Dr P. CAMPER, Messrs FYFE, LIZARS and SYME, are affixed to these Outlines.

The greater number of these Engravings represent the effects of disease, and have been copied from the more remarkable specimens in the large and valuable Collection of Morbid Preparations in the UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH; and, where colour constitutes a striking feature, it is added, that the Plates may be more faithful representations of nature. Some of the Plates are fac-similes of the Drawings; by which a much more correct imitation of the Drawings is preserved, than if they had been executed in a more laboured style; and as information,

not beauty, has been consulted, this fidelity of representation seemed best calculated to convey it.

A short explanation may perhaps be necessary, of the general principle on which the Plates have been constructed.

They are not adapted to the size of the volume, as in most books, but to the relative importance of the subjects represented. Hence they are formed on different scales-a departure from common usage, unavoidable in some measure, to attain the end proposed. A skull, for example, has been delineated of the natural size, in order that its general form and minuter parts might be distinctly seen. When it is requisite to point out national peculiarities in the configuration of the head, several skulls of the natural size are exhibited on the same Plate, that by juxta-position their peculiarities may be more prominent.

Arteries are represented on an extensive scale, lest, by redu eing them to smaller bounds, their larger trunks might not be obvious, or their smaller branches become visible only by the aid of a microscope.

In some cases, diseases have been represented as affecting different bones, that, by enlarging the view of their operation, the results might make a deeper impression on the Student's mind. To such as estimate the appendages of a book of science, their subserviency to promote instruction, these reasons may perhaps appear to be a sufficient justification of the plan that has been adopted.

For the benefit of advanced students, who may wish to extend and generalize their knowledge by the aid of books, a List of the more distinguished Authors on the several branches of Anatomy is subjoined.

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A NEW VIEW OF SOCIETY:

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ESSAYS ON THE PRINCIPLE OF THE FORMATION
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THE discovery of the principles developed in these Essays has arisen from an experience of more than twenty years, which the author acquired amidst a great variety of character, formed under various circumstances, in similar and varied situations.

The result of that experience has been, to make it evident beyond the shadow of doubt, "that any character, from the best to the worst, from the most ignorant to the most enlightened, may be given to any community, however extended, by the application of proper means; which means are to a great extent at the command and under the control of those who have influence in society."

That by the adoption of those means into practice, crime, punishment, idleness, poverty, and the innumerable evils which these generate, may be gradually removed out of society to a much greater extent' than might be supposed.

That this happy result has been reduced to matter of fact, by an experiment made during the last fourteen years at New Lanark, in which, by the application of these principles to practice, a community exceeding two thousand individuals has been, without any legal punishment, changed from a state of vice, immorality, and wretchedness, into one of comparative virtue, comfort, and happiness.

In these Essays the peculiar mode is explained by which this change has been effected. And the whole is now made public, to induce the Government, and Society in general, to investigate these principles; and, if they should be found to bear the test of the most severe scrutiny which any principles can undergo, that they may be immediately adopted into legislative practice.

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THE EDINBURGH MEDICAL AND SURGICAL JOURNAL:

Exhibiting a concise View of the latest and most important Discoveries in Medicine, Surgery, and Pharmacy.

No. 33. containing,

PART I. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 1. Cafe of Congenital Cataract; with fome Obfervations on the Means of artificially dilating the Pupil, in the Operations of extracting and depreffing the Cataract. By Mr JOHN WISHART. -2. Diffection of an Abluminous Concretion which was found in the Cavity of the Thorax. By Mr JAMES WARDROP. 3. Cafe of Hernia Cerebri. Communicated by Mr DANIEL RING. 4. On the good Effect of a Combination of Ipecacuan and Laudanum in Dyfentery. By Mr GEORGE PLAYFAIR.-5. Cafes of Hydrophobia treated; one of them fuccefsfully. By Mr F. TYMON; with Obfervations by A. BERRY, M. D.-6. Cafe of Hydrophobia fuccessfully treated. By JOHN SHOOLBRED, M. D.-7. On the Introduction of the Depletory Method of Cure in Tropical Fever. 8. On the Introduction of the Depletory Method of Cure in Tropical, Fever; By a Naval Surgeon. -9. On the Brain Fever produced by Intoxication. By JOHN ARMSTRONG, M. D.-10. On the Nature of the Disease affecting Persons employed in filvering Mirrors. By EDWARD PERCEVAL, M. D.-11. Reply to Mr Field's Juftification of the Apothecaries' Company. By Mr RICHARD PHILLIPS. 12. Observations on the Cafe of Ann Moore, called the Fafting Woman of Tutbury. By A. HENDERSON, M. D.

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PART II.-CRITICAL ANALYSIS. 1. A Treatife on some Practical Points relating to the Diseases of the Eye. By the late JOHN CUNNINGHAM SAUNDERS. To which is added, A fhort Account of the Author's Life; by J. F. FARRE, M. D.-2. An Account of a Cafe of Recovery, after an extraordinary Accident, by which the Shaft of a Chaife had been forced through the Thorax. By Mr W. MAIDEN. 3. The Morbid Anatomy of the Liver. Order I. Tumours. Part I. On the Tubera Circumfcripta, and Tubera Diffufa. By J. R. FARRE, M. D.-4. The Morbid Anatomy of the Human Gullet, Stomach, and Inteftines. By ALEXANDER MONRO Junior, M. D.

PART III.-Medical IntelligeNCE.-Quarterly Report of the Careet Difpenfary.Report of the National Vaccine Eftablishment.of a Letter from Mr P. JOHNSON.-Medical Lectures, &c.