These well-known and popular manuals appear in their fifteenth edition in an entirely new format. The text has been redesigned to make it more accessible to the student, to highlight key terms, and to set the dissection guide apart from the main text. Illustrations have been revised, with many improvements and new additions. The text has been expanded to include more explanations and new material on embryology, organogenesis, and congenital malformations of clinical significance. New imaging and diagnostic techniques such as CT scanning are included as an introduction to the usefulness of these methods, and to help the reader appreciate the close packing of the body's various structures. The Manuals provide a complete textbook for medical students, a feature increasingly necessary as the time available for teaching anatomy is cut back, and the need for detailed anatomical information in many branches of clinical work increases.
Prof Daniel John Cunningham was a Scottish physician, zoologist, and anatomist.
He earned his M.D. from the University of Edinburgh in 1876. From 1876 until 1882 he worked at the University of Edinburgh. From 1883 until 1903 he was Professor of Anatomy at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1903 he returned to the University of Edinburgh where he was Professor of Anatomy until his death.
Kind of a brain-numbing amount of information, but fabulous for artists who really want to be familiar with human anatomy. This 1949 copy is not so obsolete as some of the earlier editions. The detailed x-rays are beautiful.