The anatomical instructor; or, an illustration of the modern and most approved methods of preparing and preserving the different parts of the human body, and of quadrupeds. By injection, corrosion, maceration, distention, articulation, modelling, &c., with a variety of copper-plates / by Thomas Pole.

  • Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829.
Date:
1813
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The anatomical instructor; or, an illustration of the modern and most approved methods of preparing and preserving the different parts of the human body, and of quadrupeds. By injection, corrosion, maceration, distention, articulation, modelling, &c., with a variety of copper-plates / by Thomas Pole. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    \ vill f PREFACE, me | from the dangers and difficulties with which bodies are procured, an accurate knowledge of minute Anatomy is tarely attained. To the inhabitants of the country such a } portion only is imparted, as a few months ~ residence near the theatres of dissection can furnish them with; private anatomical inves- tigation of the human, is with them too diffi- cult and dangerous, to tempt even the hardiest to engage in: the inspection of morbid bodies seldom, if ever, falls under their notice; and, supposing this to sometimes occur, it is, in general, so cursory, as to add but litilé to their stock of anatomical facts, Hitherto, the pupil has experienced difficulties in prosecuting the anatomical part of his education, by being precluded from acquiring a knowledge of the different modes of preparing such parts of the body as would serve, not only, to impress his mind more forcibly with their structure and true use, while in preparation, but would be to him a memento to which he could always