The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-11-26
ANATOMY.
A Low-Priced Treatise ON the Human
Frame Before and After Framing.

A Low-Priced Treatise ON the Human
Frame Before and After Framing.
The word anatomy is derived from
two Greek spatters and three poly
wogs, which, when translated, signify
up through" and ito cat," so that
anatomy actually, when translated
from the original wappy-j awed Greek,
means to cut up through. That is no
doubt the reason why the medical
student proceeds to cut up through the
entire course.
Anatomy is so called because its best
results are obtained from the cutting
or dissecting of organism. For that
reason there is q growing demand in
the neighborhood of the medical col
lege for good secondhand organisms
Parties having well-preserved organ
isms that they are not actually using
will do well to call at the side door of
the medical college after 10 p. m.
The branch of comparative anatomy,
which seeks to trace the unities of plan,
which are exhibited in diverse organ
isms, and which discovers, as far as may
be, the principles which govern the
growth and development of organized
bodies, and which finds functional
analogies and structural homologes is
denominated philosophical or trans
cendental anatomy. (This statement,
though strictly true Is not original
with me-
Careful study of the human organism
after death shows traces of functional
analogies and structural homologies in
people who were supposed to have
been in perfect health all their lives
Probably many of those we meet in the
daily walks of life-many, too, who
wear smile and outwardly seem hap
py-have either one or both of these
things. A man may live false life and
deceive his most intimate friends in the
matter of anatomical analogies or
homologies, but he cannot conceal it
from the eagle eye of the medical stu
dent. The ambitious medical student
makes a specially of true inwardness.
The study of the structure of animals
is called Zootomy. The attempt to
study the anatomical structure of the
grizzly bear from the inside has not
been crowned with success. When the
anatomizer and the bear have been
thrown together casually it has gen.
orally been a struggle between the two
organisms to see which should make a
study of the structure of the other.
Zootomy and moral suasion are not
homogeneous, analogous, or indigi-
nous.
Vegetable anatomy is called ply
totomy sometimes. But it would not
be safe to address vigorous man by
that epithet We may call a vegetable
that, however, and be safe.
Human anatomy is that branch of
anatomy which enters into the descrip-
ton of the structure and geographical
distribution of the elements of human
being. 1t also applies to the structure
of the microbe that crawls out of jail
every four years just long enough to
whip his wife, vote, and go back again.
Human anatomy is either general,
specific, topo graphical or surgical.
These terms do not imply the dissection
and anatomy of generals, spe ailists,
topographers and surgeons, as they
might seem TO imply. but really mean
something else. 1 would explain here
what they actually do mean if L had
more room and knew enough to do it,
Anatomists divide their science, as
well as their subjects, into fragments.
| Osteology treats of the skeleton, my
ology of the muscles, augiology of the
blood vessels, splanchology the digest
i've organs, or department of the inter-
ior, and so on.
People tell pretty tough stories of
the young carvists who study anatomy
on subjects taken from life. l would
repeat few of them here, but they are
productive of insomonia, so L will not
give them.
1 visited matinee of this kind once
for short time, but L have not been
there since. When 1 have holiday
now, the idea of spending it in the
dissecting room of large and flourish
ing medical college does not occur to
me.
| 1 never could be successful surgeon,
1 fear. While L have no hesitation
about mutilating the English, 1 have
scruples about cutting up other nation
alities. L should always fear, while
pursuing my studies, that 1 might be
called upon to dissect friend, and L
could not do that. / should like to do
anything that would advance the cause
of science, but / should not want to
form the habit of dissecting people,
lest some day might be called upon
to dissect friend for whom had
great attachment, or some creditor who
had an attachment for em.-BW Nye.