A Series
of
Anatomical Plates;
With References and Physiological Comments
Illustrating
The Structure of the Different Parts
of
The Human Body

by Jones Quain, M.D.
Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in the University of London

and W.J.E. Wilson, M.D.
Lecturer on Practical and Surgical Anatomy and Physiology

Third Edition Revised with Additional Notes
by Joseph Pancoast, M.D.
Professor of General, Descriptive, and Surgical Anatomy in
Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia,
Lecturer on Clinical Surgery at the Philadelphia Hospital, etc., etc.

Front Cover:

This book is an absolute gem and is very scarce, due to the fact that it contains all five sections. I have never seen anything like it…ever. This volume would make a wonderful gift for that medical professional!

Jones Quain was born in 1796 in County Cork, Ireland. He went to school at Adair’s School, Fermoy, and Trinity College, Dublin. He graduated with his degree in medicine in 1820 and began teaching anatomy in London during 1825. Dr. Quain never married and devoted his life to literature and science. He spent the last twenty or so years of his life retired and lived in Paris for the most part.

William James Erasmus Wilson was born in London in 1809. He was the son of a Naval surgeon. Dr. Wilson won prizes for anatomy and physiology at the Aldersgate school and then studied under the Quain brothers. He went on to become an expert on the diseases of the skin. He was a prolific writer on the topic of dermatology. He was an advocate of bathing and washing which was not popular at the time in any of the social classes. He was a benefactor of the Seabathing Hospital at Margate. This facility was very popular for treatment of tuberculosis patients. Dr. Wilson died in 1884.

Joseph Pancoast was born in 1805. Dr. Pancoast graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Medical Department in 1828. He taught from 1839 to 1874 at Jefferson Medical College. His health was not good in the later years of his life. He died in 1882.

This book was published in 1845 by Carey and Hart, Philadelphia. The book is very large and measures approximately 10 ľ inches by 12 ľ inches. The page and plate counts are listed below with the table of contents. All total the book contains iv, 445 pages plus 200 full page plates. The plates are printed on one side of the page only and are on unnumbered pages. The book has been professionally rebound, I am not sure when, and I really would not want to guess. The book binder has put a small sticker on the inside back cover. The black cloth cover has gilt title and detailing on the front and down the spine. The cover shows no signs of wear to speak of. The front cover has about 8 small “dings” in it - about the size of a pin head. The spine is tight and the hinges are strong. The front cloth of the original cover is included with the book (shown below). The pages are printed on a good quality paper and show no signs of rips. The edges of the pages are a bit worn and there is an occasional “chip” or “fold” along the edges as it would appear that this was a well used volume in its day. Actually, the worst of the edge wear affects about 6 leaves or so towards the back of the book. The edge wear is limited to the margin area and does not affect the readability of the text or plates in any way. There is light to moderate foxing as one would expect in a book of this age. You will see examples of this below. Some of the pages show signs of water “spotting” which appears to be purely cosmetic. Neither the foxing or spotting affects the readability of the text in any way. There is a pencil signature on the title page (shown below). Exceptions noted and considering the age of this book, the overall condition of this unusual, 159 year old book is very good.

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The entire contents is too numerous to list here. I would be glad to answer specific questions upon request. Rest assured, if it is a part of the human anatomy, it is diagramed and fully described in this book.

Contents:

The Bones and Ligaments of The Human Body

The Muscles of The Human Body

The Vessels of The Human Body

The Nerves of The Human Body

The Viscera of The Human Body

Excerpt - Advertisement to the American Edition:
The American publishers of this work, for the purpose of rendering it more extensively useful by bringing down the price so as to place it within the reach of almost every one interested in the study of Anatomy, have reduced it from the folio to the quarto form. By this means, it is believed, the work will more than repay what it loses in magnitude and pretension by the greater convenience and facility for reference that it will afford the student. In usefulness and accuracy, the American publishers consider this will be found in no respect behind the English edition. Portions of the body which are minute or complicated in structure, as the organs of the senses, the head, brain &c., are represented of the same size as in the original edition, whilst such drawings as were too large for the quarto form have been reduced to the requisite size, with care to observe as far as possible the proper proportion of the different parts. The figures have been in general carefully compared with the original sources referred to in the advertisement to the London edition, and especially with the recent extensive work of Messrs. Bourgery and Jacob, from which many of the English copies have been drawn. Considerable attention has been given to the correction of the references to the plates, which almost necessarily in a work that has had to pass through so many hands, and where the references are so numerous, must be found more or less defective. Many synonyms and additional references have been introduced without mark through the body of the work, for the purpose of rendering it more useful to the American student, whilst the text of the accomplished English anatomists, Messrs. Jones Quain and W.J. Erasmus Wilson has been published without abbreviation. It has not been the desire of the American publishers to have the work loaded with notes, but such have been added as it is believed will render the work more useful to the students of this country.

Joseph Pancoast
Philadelphia, August 1, 1842
End excerpt

Plate I. Skeleton of an adult male, anterior aspect. This figure is copied from Cheselden’s beautiful plate. In his description of the figure, Cheselden observes that it is “in the same proportions and attitude with the Belvidere Apollo.”

Excerpt - Advertisement to the English Edition

This publication consists of a series of the most approved Anatomical Drawings, selected from monograph treatises or from systematic works. The highest place in the former class is deservedly conceded to the works of Scarpa and Tiedemann, and in the latter, to those of Mascagni and Caldani; but, from their size, and the style in which they are executed, the expense of publication is necessarily such as to confine their usefulness to comparatively few persons. It may, however, be fairly admitted, that the collections of Cloquet and Loder, though not of equal pretension, are no less valuable to students, as a guide to the knowledge of that complex fabric, whose composition they seek to investigate; and to those of maturer age, as a means of reviving impressions received during their earlier studies. As, however, even the works last named, from their price, are inaccessible to some, and to others from the descriptions and references being given in a foreign language, the want of a similar publication in an English garb has been for some time complained of.

To supply the want here noticed, and at a moderate price, is the object of the present undertaking. The plates are accompanied by letter-press, containing detailed references to the various objects delineated, the names being set down in English, Latin, and French. But with a view to render them intelligible to a greater number of persons, a running comment on each Plate is given, stating in general terms, and divested (as far as can be) of all technicality, the uses and purposes which the different objects serve in the animal economy. The drawings are taken on stone by Mr. W. Fairland, and the printing executed by Hullmandel, and Graff and Soret.

The work consists of Five Divisions as follows:
The Bones and Ligaments

The Muscles

The Heart and the Blood Vessels (Arteries and Veins,) with the Lymphatic and Lacteal Vessels

The Brain and Spinal Marrow; the Nerves and Organs of Sense

Organs of Digestion, Respiration, and Secretion End excerpt

Bones and Ligaments

Plate II. Skeleton of an adult male, posterior aspect; after Cheselden. In describing this figure, Cheselden remarks that it was delineated from “the skeleton of a man five feet and a half high; the left hand resting on the hip of another skeleton, which was near eight feet high.” The latter represents a posterior view “of some of the bones of the lower limb of a man near eight feet high.” The skull lying upon the ground he states to have belonged to the same man.

In introducing the bones of the lower extremity to the position represented in the plate, Cheselden seems to have evinced a desire of directing the attention of the student to the obliquity of the femur in relation to the tibia; in order to explain in this way the reason for the greater length of the inner than of the outer codyle.

Muscles

Plate VI. The muscles which move the globe of the eye…

Vascular System

Plate I. This plate gives a view of the commencement of the great artery (aorta) as it issues from the heart, together with the leading branches, which carry the blood to the head and upper extremities; and the trunk of the great vein, (vena cava vel magna,) which returns the blood from the same parts. In order to bring these different objects into view, the sternum and the fore-part of the ribs have been removed, so as to expose the heart itself…

The Vascular System

Left: Plate XXIII. This plate shows the relative position of the epigastria artery, to the neck of the sac in oblique and direct inguinal hernia…

Right: Sample of text facing Vascular System Plate I - shown above.

The Vascular System

Plate XXXIX. The veins enclosed within the vertebral canal…

The Nerves

Plate XXXIII. Anatomy of the organ of hearing; middle ear, or tympanum…

The Viscera

Plate XIX. The internal cavities of the heart, with the peculiarities of the foetal heart…

Note: The final illustration is of the original cloth cover which has been preserved by the book binder.

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