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IT is unnecessary to commend the work of Prof. Henle, which is on the whole the most full and exact yet published. It shares the richness and accuracy of its illustrations with the last edition (the fourth) of Cruveilhier's great work, and shares with it the serious disadvantage of being incomplete. Indeed, while in the latter the part relating to “Angéiologie” which includes the description of the heart, blood-vessels and absorbents, was published in 1867, preceding the completion of the second volume on visceral anatomy in the following year, the third volume of the German work, with the whole of the nervous system, has not yet appeared. In this respect the only English work on descriptive anatomy which can rival Henle's has a great advantage; each edition of what was originally Dr. Quain's Anatomy has been published complete, and on this ground, as well as that of conciseness, the last edition of this work may, with the help of Prof. Sharpey's masterly introduction on general anatomy, take rank with those of France and Germany.
Handbuch der Systematischen Anatomie des Menschen.
Von Dr. J. Henle, 1 Band, 1 Abtheilung, Knochen-lehre, 3 Auflage, pp. 310. (Braunschweig, 1871. London: Williams & Norgate.)
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P., H. Handbuch der Systematischen Anatomie des Menschen . Nature 4, 101 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/004101a0
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