Practical Dissections - Softcover

Richard Manning Hodges

Softcover

ISBN 10: 046164603X ISBN 13: 9780461646030

Publisher: HardPress, 2021

Synopsis

Practical Dissections by Richard Manning Hodges is a nineteenth-century practical anatomy manual designed as a guide for medical students during ordinary dissections. Hodges emphasizes usable, nondetailed guidance rather than exhaustive treatises on anatomy, describing muscles, nerves, arteries, veins, and other structures only as they appear during typical dissections and within the confines of ordinary injections. The book is organized into three major parts—head and neck, upper extremity, and abdomen with the trunk and lower extremity—and keeps a day-by-day structure, with sections such as External Ear, Frontal and Orbital Region, Facial Arteries, Parotid Gland, Dura Mater and Sinuses, and Cranial Nerves at their Exits. It includes practical rules for dissection, methods of demonstration, cautions about preservation, and notes on using minimal or no illustrations to avoid distraction. Beyond technique, it presents historical context and the author’s credentials as a demonstrator of anatomy at Harvard, aiming to train hands and minds for reliable, methodical dissections.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 046164603X
• ISBN 13: 9780461646030
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 284