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I. HUMAN anatomy, as ordinarily taught, has for its end simply the knowledge of the structure of the body of the man we have most to deal with in our practice, that is, the European man, in his usual average development. No cognisance is taken of the deviations from this ordinary but known type, except as individual variations, which have their principal interest in any interference they may cause with our diagnosis or treatment of the diseases or injuries to which our frame is liable.
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The Comparative Anatomy of Man 1 . Nature 20, 222–225 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020222a0
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