A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR MAKING POST-MORTEM EXAMINATIONS, AND FOR THE STUDY OF MORBID ANATOMY, WITH DIRECTIONS FOR EMBALMING THE DEAD, AND FOR THE PRESERVATION OF SPECIMENS OF MORBID ANATOMY. BY A. R. THOMAS, M. D. Professor of Anatomy in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia; Lecturer on Artistic Anatomy in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and Philadelphia School of Design; Member of the American Institute of Homœopathy; General Editor of American Journal of Homœopathic Materia Medica, Etc., Etc. FOR SALE BY BOERICKE & TAFEL, NEW YORK: | PHILADELPHIA: NO. 145 GRAND STREET. | NO. 635 ARCH STREET. 1873. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by A. R. THOMAS, M. D., In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. JAMES E. KRYDER, PRINTER, 32 SOUTH SEVENTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA. PREFACE. The following work has been prepared with a view of supplying a want, the existence of which has long been felt by the author, both in his private practice and public teaching. No pretension is made of offering a complete work on Morbid Anatomy, the object having been, merely to present the practitioner and student with a practical guide for making post-mortem examinations, to give them hints as to what they are to look for in such cases, and, finally, to aid them in recognizing the various morbid appearances as they are exposed to view. The work is divided into four parts. Parts I, II and III, corresponding to the three great divisions of the body—the Head, Chest and Abdomen. Part IV, is devoted to miscellaneous subjects, and contains chapters on the Bones; Joints; Tumors; Effects of Poisons; Medico-Legal Autopsies; On Embalming the Dead; and On the Preservation of Morbid Specimen. A few illustrative cases have been introduced, and occasional reference made to morbid specimens in the Museum of the Hahnemann College. The following works have been consulted in the preparation of the book, and as few references have been made, this general credit is felt to be due the several sources of information: Rokitansky’s, Craigie’s, Jones and Sievecking’s, and Green’s Pathological Anatomy; Rindfleish’s Pathological Histology; Paget’s Surgical Histology; Raue’s Pathology; Murchison, on the Liver; Hope, on the Heart; Brinton, on the Stomach; Stewart, on the Kidney; Gross’ Surgery; Christison on Poisons; Casper and Taylor’s Medical Jurisprudence.