Clinical lectures on the principles and practice of medicine . sess an accurate knowledge of the relativeposition of the various internal organs. This subject is not placed socarefully before the student as it deserves—a circumstance which mayprobably be attributed to the fact, that anatomy is for the most parttaught by surgeons. But now that physical diagnosis constitutes sonecessary a part of medical education, topographical, as distinguished from * For an excellent guide to the examination of the dead body, I would recommendthe practitioner and student to a work entitled, What to Observe, p
Clinical lectures on the principles and practice of medicine . sess an accurate knowledge of the relativeposition of the various internal organs. This subject is not placed socarefully before the student as it deserves—a circumstance which mayprobably be attributed to the fact, that anatomy is for the most parttaught by surgeons. But now that physical diagnosis constitutes sonecessary a part of medical education, topographical, as distinguished from * For an excellent guide to the examination of the dead body, I would recommendthe practitioner and student to a work entitled, What to Observe, published,under the authority of the London Medical Society of Observation. 34 EXAMINATION OF THE PATIENT. surgical anatomy, is every day felt to be more necessary. I wouldearnestly therefore recommend the student of Clinical Medicine to studythe excellent work of Dr. Sibson on Medical Anatomy, in which this sub-ject is admirably treated and illustrated. From his work I have borrowedthe two accompanying figures, which exhibit at a glance the position of the.
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