Surgical Anatomy

There is no empty space in the chest: the lungs and heart press against one another, each shaping the room the other occupies. And a blade thrust into the neck above the collarbone could pierce the tip of a lung.

In this mid-nineteenth-century guide, surgeon and anatomist Joseph Maclise maps the living body through the forms and relationships of its hidden structures. Beginning with the thorax, he shows how the heart alters the space of the lungs, how the diaphragm links chest and abdomen, and why the body’s surface can conceal the hazards beneath it. For the surgeon, a small difference in position may mean the difference between a safe passage and a wounded organ. How much of the body’s inner arrangement can be read from its outward form?

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