Structure and Function as Seen in the Foot

Professor Jones recently published a book on the 'Principles of anatomy as seen in the hand'. This volume on the foot is in some way a supplement to the one on the hand. These books and the other writings of this author are characterized by a desire to get away from the anatomy of the dead to the structure and function of the living, by an original and interesting approach to the subject, and by lively and interesting presentation. These points are well illustrated in the book under review. After a lively but brief introduction followed by a discussion of the principles of anatomical terminology in which the author expresses the view that much present terminology is quite irrational, there follow chapters on the foot in phylogeny, in ontogeny, chapters