A one-year anatomical course : its arrangement, merits and disadvantages / by R. J. Terry.

  • Terry, Robert J. (Robert James), 1871-1966.
Date:
[1901?]
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Credit: A one-year anatomical course : its arrangement, merits and disadvantages / by R. J. Terry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Reprint from the Medical Bulletin Of Washington University, April issue. A ONE-YEAR ANATOMIC RANGEMENT, MEE ' VANTAGES.1 BY R. J. TERRY, M.D. It has become a common matter for the older medical practitioners to ridicule anatomy courses because out of the vast number of details which students are required to learn, so few are of immediate use in the every day treatment of the sick. It is not to be denied that most of what is gone over (and in some cases learned) in this elusive branch, is soon forgotten, yet there is a weighty reason for presenting this mass of details to medical students which is often over- looked. Of the strictly medical subjects human anatomy is un- doubtedly the most fundamental, and upon 'it depends al- most every other subject in the curriculum. Perhaps the greatest use that anatomy obtains is during the medical course. It is the first step which one must take toward a proper understanding of physiology, pathology and rational therapeutics. If the principles of anatomy and the descrip- tive matter have been so well learned that the student can pursue intelligently the more advanced medical studies, then even though he forget, in after years, many particulars of structure and relation, he will have reached his conclusions, starting with facts which he has demonstrated, and these conclusions he retains as his working basis during the years of practice. Not with any intention to curtail or belittle the study in relation to others was anatomy made a one-year course; the aim was to place this fundamental subject in the very beginning of the curriculum. lRead at the fifteenth session of the Association of American Anatomists, Chicago, Dec. 31st, 1901. —l—