"The cbalienge， tberefore， was to absorb and assimilate the new learning and to exhibit it in a form easily understandable， attractive and so instructive that the essential points could be readily visuakzed and the more rmportant details grasped without need for search in specific or original publications. "——Frank H. Netter MD， Introduction， The Netter Collection of Illustrations， Reproductive System， 1954No student of medicine， past or present， is unaware of the extraordinary series of medical illustrations created by Dr. Frank Netter， the master artist-surgeon. This incredible body of work has since been carried forward after Dr. Netter's passing by the talented Carlos Machado， MD， and others， all remarkably gifted medical illustrators， Physicians old and young have looked at these imagesume and again for the last five decades， returning to them as comfortable sources of clear and clinically succinct information. For many of us， it was this volume that was bought for us by our parents as our first text...
