SECTION V. Of the Mind or Intellectual Faculties, p. 323 to 367.

SECTION VI.-Of Conscience, and the Soul, Morality, and Religion, p. 367 to 372.

OF THE FUNCTION OF GENERATION, AND ORGANS, p. 373 to 425.

First, Necessity for consideration of

Subject,

5. Female Puberty, or Ages

when Female power of

Conception commences and

Ceases

6. Signs of Virginity,

7. Of Impregnation, and progress

of Ovum Foetus and child in

Utero, parts incidental during

Pregnancy,

1. Umbilical Cord,

2. Placenta,

396

398

399

401

ib.

402

ib.

ib.

403

ib.

409

2. Extreme extension of Time, ib.

3. How early a Child may be

delivered to attain maturity, 410

9. Regimen and Exercise during

Pregnancy,S

411

ib.

ib.

412

. 414

. 416

OF THE INTEGUMENTS, VIZ. SKIN, HAIR, AND NAILS, AND THEIR FUNCTIONS, p. 426 to 435.

OF THE DIFFERENT AGES IMPORTANT IN FACT AND LAW, p. 436 to 443.

CHAPTER XIII.

OF THE ESSENTIALS FOR THE CONTINUANCE OF HEALTH AND HAPPINESS, AND HOW SECURED

BY LAW, p. 444 to 471.

PART FIRST.

OF ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY.

CHAPTER I.

OF THE LANGUAGE OF ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, PATHOLOGY, SURGERY,
CHEMISTRY, AND MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE.

Subjects of the work and importance of
the knowledge of Terms.
Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, Surge-
ry, Chemistry, and Medical Jurispru-
dence defined.

Works to be read, &c.

Necessity for the proper use of Scientific
Terms.

What deviation from strict meaning al-
lowed.

Names of some Organs and Parts taken from their Discoverers or Describers. Confusion occasioned by non-observance of a uniform principle of Nomencla

ture.

Impropriety of changing established terms,
Unless a general improved Nomenclature
be enforced.

Absurdity of unnecessary adoption of un-
known Terms.

Simplicity in Medical Language and Testi

mony recommended.

Question upon the expediency of conti-
nuing Latin Prescriptions.

Arguments in favour of Prescriptions in
the English Language.

Arguments in favour of Continuance of
Prescriptions in Latin.

Plan of work, as regards Explanation of CHAP. I.
Physical Terms, with Plates, &c.

LANGUAGE OF ANATO

MY, &c.

of the deri

THAT the medical and legal student may not, when considering the sub- Subjects of sequent practical details, be embarrassed or interrupted by ascertaining this work the import of terms, it is proposed in this chapter to clear the ground by and imporexplaining the meaning of some of the principal and general scientific tance of the terms connected with the subject. This is necessary, even for the use knowledge of classical students, however well acquainted with the dead languages, vation, etyand with the etymology and derivation of all words from Greek and mology, Latin; for where is the individual who is also thoroughly well informed and meanin the French, German, and all the other modern European languages, ing of from most of which much of the present learning, and many modern terms. terms have been derived? The subjects of this work are, First, Anatomy and Physiology; Secondly, Pathology, and the science and practice of Medicine and Surgery, or the remedies for diseases, defects, and injuries; Thirdly, Medical Jurisprudence and Police, and the Laws relating to Public Health, and Injuries to the Person, and to Medical and Surgical evidence; and, Fourthly, The Laws relating to all Members of the Medical Profession. It will be obvious that these subjects are of great practical importance, and require most attentive consideration.

Anatomy, (from the Greek ava, "apart," and μv, "to cut," or to Anatomy. cut apart," or dissect,) in its most extensive sense, is the science of organization, or a complete knowledge of every part of the human frame. It is the science which describes the mechanical structure of the body and of each part in particular, and the physical relations which such parts bear to each other, and how they may be locally affected by operations of every description; not only by those which are deemed surgical and affected by the scalpel, but also by injections, macerations, desiccations,