{'fraction_non_alphanumeric': 0.027214250371103414, 'fraction_numerical': 0.002474022761009401, 'mean_word_length': 4.744318181818182, 'pattern_counts': {'":': 0, '<': 0, '<?xml version=': 0, '>': 0, 'https://': 0, 'lorem ipsum': 0, 'www.': 0, 'xml': 0}, 'pii_count': 0, 'substrings_counts': 0, 'word_list_counts': {'cursed_substrings.json': 0, 'profanity_word_list.json': 0, 'sexual_word_list.json': 0, 'zh_pornsignals.json': 0}}
How can the physician safely proceed with the human machine?

In 1833, in an effort to legalize the study of anatomy, Davis et al. stated, “Reasoning from analogy, the inference is irresistible, that the basis of all medical skill is a knowledge of anatomy. How would the mariner successfully navigate the ocean with his frail bark, were he ignorant of its construction, unskilled to trim its sails, and to shape its course, so as best to encounter the opposing as well as favoring swell of the deep. Could the watchmaker or the machinist nicely adjust the various wheels, springs, checks, and regulators, which unite to make the complete machine, were he ignorant both of its parts and of the principles and means of their mutual and combined action? The human machinery is most complicate and recondite. We see the results, but we do not understand the causes and means by which they are achieved. We walk, we sit, we lift our hand, we sleep, we eat, and the body is nourished; these are daily circumstances, common place, nay, almost hourly events in every man’s history; but how few are there, not, who understand the machinery by which these results are achieved, but who can fully and seriously appreciate that these, and every other operation of the human frame, show that man truly is fearfully and wonderfully made. The organs, on which most of the important functions of the human body depend, are concealed from view. Their mutual effects and sympathies can only be understood by the knowledge of their secret, most recondite operations.” In this Special Issue of Clinical Anatomy, Dr. Ali Mirjalili from the University of Auckland and Dr. Richard Tunstall from the University of Warwick have put together articles clarifying and redefining previous notions of surface anatomy. Obviously, knowledge of surface landmarks to underlying anatomy is important to the clinician and the surface is not always as it seems as exemplified by the cover of this issue painted by the Italian painter Filippo Balbi (Fig. 1).