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.

Acknowledgment should here be made of the valuable assistance rendered by Drs. W. H. Bigler and John N. Mitchell, in carrying the work through the press; and of the kindness of Mr. J. H. Gemrig, in the loan of the electrotype plates which embellish the preliminary chapter.

Conscious that the work is not without defects, it is still presented to the profession, with the hope that it may be found to answer the purpose for which it was designed.

A. R. THOMAS, _937 Spruce Street_.

MARCH, 1873.

CONTENTS.

PAGE. PREFACE, 15 INTRODUCTION, 17 PRELIMINARY CHAPTER. Instruments and General Directions, 21