Georg Thieme Verlag-Thieme Inc.

Foreword This pocket atlas is designed to provide a plain and clear compendium of the essential facts of human anatomy for the student of medicine. It also demonstrates the basic knowledge of the subject for students of related disciplines and for the interested layman. For all students...

From the Foreword to 1st Edition of Volume 2 Changes in medical education have led to a shortening of the preclinical studies and to major changes in their emphasis. Knowledge of anatomy in particular now tends to be gained mostly from formal lecture courses and examinations place little...

Foreword to 1st Edition of Volume 3 This volume provides not only an introduction to the basic structure of the nervous system but also a simple, short review of our present state of knowledge which has been so greatly increased during the last decades by the results of electron microscopy,...