Excerpt from A Treatise on the Human Skeleton: Including the Joints In lecturing on the Skeleton my practice has been, instead of giving a detailed account of the several parts, to request the members of the class, each day, to get up the descriptive anatomy of certain bones, with the aid of some work on osteology. On the subsequent day, I tested their acquirements by viva voce examination, and endeavoured to supply deficiencies and to correct errors. I also added such information - physical, physiological, pathological, and practical - as I had been able to gather, from my own observation and researches, and which was likely to be useful and to excite an interest in the subject. The additional information, thus collected, forms, in great part, the material of the present volume; which does not profess to give a regular description of the bones, and is not, therefore, intended as a substitute for any of the existing manuals of anatomy; but is rather, supplementary to them. The description of the joints has been made more complete than that of the bones; because it is less fully given in other works; and because an accurate knowledge of the structure and peculiar forms of the joints is essential to a correct knowledge of their movements. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."