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and engravings will teach him. The 
execution of the present series is in the 
same style of soft engraving as the for- 
mer, a style favourable to effect as a pic- 
ture, and to the imitations of real disséc- 
tion, However the plates, when very com- 
prehensive, though finished with much 
care, have the defect of not being sufh- 
ciently distinct : the eye is pained to pur- 
sue even important branches in the intrica- 
cies of the thoracic and abdominal viscera, 
and for the sake of-the picturesque effect 
the references are so minute, that it is 
with extreme difficulty that they can all 
MEDICINE, SURGERY, ANATOMY, &e. 
be followed when the dotted lines. pro« 
ceeding from them lead. to the inner 
parts of the plate. These defects could 
hardly have been remedied but by sepa- 
rate unshaded sketches for the references, 
ov by using a larger scale. The latter 
was not in the author’s plan; the for- 
mer might have been introduced, at least 
to the most intricate. : 
Still they are an elegant and useful 
series of plates, and will be received, we 
doubt not, with the same approbation 
which. has distinguished the former pub- 
lications of this able anatomist. 
Arr. XL. Joun Gortiies Warter’s Plates of the thoracic and abdominal Nerves, ve« 
duced from the Original, and published by Order of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Berlin; 
accompanied by Explanations and a Description of the Par Vagum, great Sympathetic, and 
. J a 
ry 
Phrenic Nerves. 
PROFESSOR WALTER’s incom- 
parable plates are well known by anato- 
mists to be one of the most accurate, 
most complete, and altogether most per- 
fect specimens of Neurology ever pub- 
lished, and fully to merit the encomium 
of Seemmerring of being “ opus consum- 
matissimum, maxima cura, diligentia, 
#t perspicuitate difficillimam doctrine 
nervorum partem exhibens.” 
They were first published in the Me- 
moirs of the Berlin Academy for the 
year 1780, and are there executed in the 
most masterly style of engraving. Being 
now not easily proecurable, Dr. Hooper 
has done a great service to anatomy in 
republishing them in a reduced form, 
aecompanied with the ‘original explana- 
tions, to which he has added a short ac- 
count of the par vagum, great sympa- 
thetic and phrenic nerve. 
Dr. Hooper has also adopted the very 
useful plan of some of his former anato- 
mica! selections, of accompanying the fi- 
nished plate with a-variously-coloured 
outline sketch, to which all letters of re- 
ference are transferred, a plan which pre- 
serves the unity and clearness of the en- 
graying, and is of most material assist- 
ance to the reader. The plates of this 
collection are executed in a remarkably 
distinct and elegant manner, and do 
great credit to the artist, Mr. Kirtland. 
“Art. XLIL ‘Practical Observations onthe Management of Ruplures, in two Parts. Part I. 
New Inventions and Directions for ruptured Persons. 
By Wittiam Harte Timeren, £sg. 
the Nature of Ruptures in both Sexes. 
Part Il. A familiar Account of 
lo 
ahich are prefixed two 'recommendatory Letters, by William Blair, A. M. Member of the 
Royal College of Surgeons 3 Fellow of she Medical Societies of London, Paris, and Brus« 
sels; Surgeon of the Lock Hospital und Asylum, and of the Bloomsbury Dispensary, S'cu 
The third Edition, with Additions, illustrated by three engravings. 
THE author, a gentleman not in the 
profession, and long a sufferer under this 
complaint, has obtained the honourable 
distinction of the gold medal of the So- 
ciety of Arts for his improvement in the 
construction of trusses. The most ma- 
terial point in the construction of this 
truss is a calico cushion to be worn un- 
der the pad. For this we shall give the 
author’s words: 
«¢ T will now add the dascription and uses 
‘ef the cushions of coarse calico; and the 
instructions how ‘to form one; first observing, 
that calico has elastic and adhesive properties 
which do uot exist in linen or Hannel, 
<«« Cut or tear a slip of coarse calico, about 
twelve inches in length, and for adults three 
inches in breadth; fold it into a square of 
a size that will project’a quarter of an inch 
round the edges of the pad of the truss, 
except that ead next the thigh, which 
should have no projection .beyond the neck 
of the pad. ‘Phe rough edges of, the cu- 
shion are wern upwards and downwards. 
Over the first slip many others are folded, 
or doubled on each other, to the thick- 
mess_ of about three quarters of an inch, 
but the thickness ‘must be regulated by the 
size of the patient. When the hollow in the 
‘groin-is completely filled yp, and the cushion 
quite immoyeable, it is properly formed. 
» This calico cushion is to be worn under 
