INTRODUCTION.
The plan of arrangement adopted in the anatomical department
of the museum, and published in the first volume of this
work, having been found extremely convenient, an experiment
has been made of applying it to the classification of the
preparations in pathology; and, with a very little modification,
it has been found to work as well in the one collection
as in the other; and, in both, to be equally manageable, as
regards the catalogue.
As the two volumes, by treating of such different subjects,
are rendered distinct from each other; and as they may,
therefore, be seldom found together in the hand of the student,
it is necessary to repeat here, in part, what has been already
stated in the first volume regarding the details of the classification,
and the mode by which references may be made
from the preparations on the shelves to the catalogue, or, vice
versa, from the catalogue to the exact spot in the museum at
which the preparations sought for are to be found.
The preparations are distributed into six classes, which are