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" . CHAPTER XVIII. 
MEDICINE, SURGERY, ANATOMY, 
THE VETERINARY ART. 
A VERY large increase has taken place in the number of publications on these 
branches of science which we have this year to present to our readers; nor is the 
addition merely that of number; for amidst much temporary and insignificant 
matter, we may select a portion which deserves a permanent place in our libraries. 
The well-earned reputation of the late Dr. Fordyce wilt not be diminished by 
the last of his Essays on Fever ; Dr. Cheyne has given a useful treatise on a set of 
morbid symptoms in infants which bring thousands to an untimely grave, and 
among the practical works we may also distinguish Dr. Blackburne’s description 
of scarlet fever. The extreme prevalence of the epidemic catarrh, or influenza last 
spring gave rise to several smaller publications of temporary interest, but derived 
from too partial observation to determine the very few questions of permanent im- 
portance connected with its rise and propagation. The most original of the pub- 
‘ications of the year is unquestionably Dr. Beddoes’s series of popular essays on the 
preservation of health, the work of no common observer, and characteristic both 
in its excellencies and defects. ‘Two additions of considerable value have been 
made to the now familiar subject. of Cow-Pox: Mr. Ring’s marked by compre- 
hensive diffuseness, thet of Dr. Pearson and his colleagues distinguished by apho- 
ristic condensation and perspicuity. 
| Surgery has received the accession of Mr. Hey’s valuable practical remarks, the 
Jong experience of a miles emeritus; the treatise on Hernia by the younger Monro, 
‘inaugural to the assumption.of a professional chair, rich in hereditary reputation 
and deeply pledged to the world for pre-eminent abilities; Mr. Home’s further 
observations on stricture, and practical testimony to the importance of a particular 
mode of surgical treatment; and Mr. Trye’s remarks.on a formidable and some» 
what rare species of external injury. 
Mr, Bell in completing his system of anatomy has supplied a deficiency long 
felt in our libraries. Professor Walter’s beautiful plates of the abdominal and 
thoraci¢ nerves, together with Mr. Bell’s elegart system of neurology, and some 
_ other anatomical engravings, will materially assist the student of anatomy ; and the 
plan of nomenclature sketched by Dr. Barclay demands the attention of all wha 
teach this admirable sciences) To these we may add Mr. Fox’s treatise on the 
teeth, a valuable work on a subject hitherto somewhat negleeted. 
Elementary introductions to medical science and slight general treatises croud 
_ upon us with profusion. It is not difficult for any one possessed of industry and 
‘educated in the midst of lectures ‘on every science, and furnished with elementary 
