Caroline E. Stackpole

Abstract: This volume is accurately described as the "Fundamentals of Anatomy" and as such can be most warmly recommended to the junior medical student, the nurse and even to the intelligent layman so direct and simple is the language. The purpose of a particular tissue or organ is always discussed as a preliminary to a description of its structure and in this way an interest is aroused in the subject which should go a long distance in rebutting the too frequent statement that anatomy is a dry-as-dust study and simply a feat of the memory. The book is profusely illustrated by pictures in colour as well as in black and white, there is a most comprehensive index and, in addition, a good glossary which should be of great assistance to the young or inexperienced reader.