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Practical Guide for Making Post Post-Mortem Examinations and for the Study of Morbid Anatomy: With Directions for Embalming the Dead, and for the ... Specimens of Morbid Anatomy (Classic Reprint)
Practical Guide for Making Post PostMortem Examinations and for the Study of Morbid Anatomy With Directions for Embalming the Dead and for the Specimens of Morbid Anatomy - Classic Reprint Author:A. R. Thomas Excerpt from Practical Guide for Making Post Post-Mortem Examinations and for the Study of Morbid Anatomy: With Directions for Embalming the Dead, and for the Preservation of Specimens of Morbid Anatomy — The following work has been prepared with a view of supplying a want, the existence of which has long been felt by the author, both in his priv... more »ate practice and public teaching. No pretension is made of offering a complete work on Morbid Anatomy, the object having been, merely to present the practitioner and student with a practical guide for making post-mortem examinations, to give them hints as to what they are to look for in such cases, and, finally, to aid them in recognizing the various morbid appearances as they are exposed to view.
The work is divided into four parts. Parts I, II and III, corresponding to the three great divisions of the body - the Head, Chest and Abdomen. Part IV, is devoted to miscellaneous subjects, and contains chapters on the Bones; Joints; Tumors; Effects of Poisons; Medico-Legal Autopsies ;On Embalming the Dead; and On the Preservation of Morbid Specimen.
A few illustrative cases have been introduced, and occasional reference made to morbid specimens in the Museum of the Hahnemann College.
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