As one of my elective classes I choose to take anatomy and physiology class. I figured since I wanted to draw people what better way to understand the human figure than by studying it from the inside out.
I learned all about the skeletal and muscular systems and touched upon the other systems of the body.
While we didn’t study actual cadavers we did examine a real human skeleton. At one point our instructor offered to secure a real human head for close-up examination.
But, because our classroom didn’t have the proper refrigeration and preservation equipment that plan never came to fruition-thank God!
I don’t know if I could have handled dissecting a human head.
Over the years I’ve grown a little less squeamish and have studied various books containing photos of actual human parts. Most books only touched upon examination with few photos of actual corpses.
In John Wiley & Sons, Inc’s book: Atlas Of Human Anatomy, compiled and written by Mark Nielsen and Shawn Miller, the entire human body is examined-and all of its systems, using full-color photos of actual human body parts.
Every muscle, bone, organ and system is dissected, cross-sectioned and shown from all angles.
It’s a little unsettling but fascinating none the less.
I highly recommend this book not only to those who plan to major in medicine but to art students and the curious as well.
Every part of the body is shown and include a full descriptions, proper anatomical names and examinations of how each part functions both as an individual component but also as part of the functioning of the entire body.
The human body is dissected through sections, piece-by piece in a thorough examination of how human anatomy functions.
James 5:15 - And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
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