Provides comprehensive, step-by-step guidance for completing an orthopedic examination and summarizes relevant anatomical details. Abundant, high-quality halftone illustrations are used to guide the resident or medical student through the examination process. Includes new material on thoracic outlet syndrome, shoulder instabilities, and more.

The following is a glossary of anatomical and histological (microscopic anatomy) terms: their etymology – derivation where relavent, their word roots, prefixes, suffixesand their pronunciation. Other common medical terminology used in health studies are also included. Many of these terms will appear again and again in medical/health related subjects.

Samael Aun Weor, founder of the International Gnostic Movement and author of sixty books, lived for many years in close contact with the mysterious natives of the Sierra Nevada of South America. He and his wife Litelantes compiled and verified the knowledge they had been given by the Priests and Doctors of that region, and supplemented it with their own Initiatic wisdom, resulting in this book Occult Medicine and Practical Magic.