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Excerpt from Description of the Arteries of the Human Body: Reduced to Tables
The English text is printed from a work of established merit; but with so little attention that errors in letters are exactly reprinted. The text is defective also, in common with most of our descriptions of the arteries, in passing rather slightly over most of the great arteries: while a very great number of small branches are enumerated. Every one becomes sensible in practice that an acquaintance with these minute branches is absolutely useless and that on the other hand, there is no description of the large vessels that is minute enough to enable him to avoid or to search for a great artery with calm ness and confidence. It was proposed to remedy this defect, as far as it can be remedied in'descriptions, by collecting from the works of Haller, Soemmering, Boyer and Bichat, the most particular and satisfactory accounts of the relations of these arteries to the parts near which they are situated. Thishas been in some degree efiected with regard to the 'aorta, carotids, right and left subclavians, iliac, inguinal and femoral arteries but after this had been done, certain circumstances rendered it necessary for the proprietor of the work to complete its publi cation in the course of a few days. For this reason the com plete execution of the plan was necessarily interrupted; and also my inspection of the newly printed sheets.
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