Customer Reviews

A helpful dissection guide and reference to dog anatomy - By: , 25 Nov 2001
"Guide to the dissection of the dog" takes you step by step through the dissection of the dog by each system foundin each region. This allows the anatomy observed to be put into context & thus better understood & better learnt.

The instructions are clear & consise & help you to see all of the important structures. They give you advice on how to carry out each stage of the dissection, whilst describing the structures seen at the same time.

Following each section of instructures are clearly labelled diagrams, which are, to me, the most useful aspect of the book. They show a good level of detail & are excellent for indentifing structuresin the specimen with which you are working. The majority of structures are labelled directly on the diagrams with leader lines, rather than with a numbered key, which I think makes the diagrams much easier to use then some others (such as those foundin the otherwise excellent "Textbook of Veterinary Anatomy" by Dyce, Sack & Wensing). There are also helpful descriptions of attachment, action & innervation of each muscle under clear headings.

I have also found that the Guide is an excellent reference book for learning anatomy from & even for when writing anatomy essays. The emphasis of the book is on description of the structures found, rather than explaination of their functions, & it is therefore no replacement for a full textbook of anatomy, such as "Miller's Anatomy of the Dog". As a reference to the name, position & shape of structures, however, "Guide to the Dissection of the Dog" is very useful & as a guide to dog dissection, is essential.