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Camper’s opinion on the impossibility of 
dividing this artery is ably controverted, 
and a long passage is quoted from 
Rougemont’s translation of Richter’s 
treatise. We remembered to have read 
these sensible criticisms, which were pub- 
lished without a name in a northern 
periodical journal. ‘There can be no 
doubt of the author, as, on comparing 
the passages, we find the remarks pre- 
cisely the same, and expressed in the 
same clear and decided language. No 
allusion, however, is made to that pub- 
lication. After describing Gimbernat’s 
mode of operating, our author quotes 
the operation proposed by his father so 
far back as many years ago, which has 
always been recommended in his surgical 
lectures. With this quotation the vo- 
lume terminates; but an appendix, con- 
sisting of sixteen pages, is added, which 
is wholly occupied with an extract from 
Dr. Monro’s treatise on the burse mucose. 
The use of this appendix is not very evi- 
dent, except it was to serve as stuffing, 
to make something like a book; for the 
practice there recommended of not di- 
viding the hernial sac is dangerous, and 
often impracticable. 
The merits of this first essay cannot be 
rated very high: it will not entitle the 
author to the smallest niche in the tem- 
MEDICINE, SURGERY, ANATOMY, &c. 
ple of fame. If we consider it as an in- 
augural dissertation, and it resembles the 
generality of these first flights, it is en- 
titled to some praise, and may be read 
“haud sine fructu.’ There is great in- 
dustry and assiduity displayed in collect- 
ing materials; almost every sentence 
can boast of its derivation from some 
writer or some respectable practitioner, 
Books and conversation appear to have 
furnished Dr. Monro with all the sub- 
stance of his work—“ ore trahit quodeunque 
potest, atque addit acervo.” We are un- 
able to guess his reasons for choosing 
suth a subject. ‘The faults in his man- 
ner of treating it may be ascribed more 
to his situation, as an operator on the 
dead body, than to any want of abilities 
for such pursuits. We should therefore 
caution him not to venture again before 
the public on such a practical subject, 
where he has such slender opportunity 
for displaying his acquirements, and 
where so many things contribute to ex- 
pose and aggravate his defects. 
The plates connected with this work 
are six in number; they are very neatly 
engraved, apparently from very accurate 
drawings. ‘The names of the artists are 
not mentioned, although they contribute 
so large a share to the merit and price of 
the publication: “ sic vos nou vobis, Sc.” 
Art. XLII. The Soldier’s Friend; containing familiar Instructions to the Loyal Volun- 
teers, Yeomanry Corps, and Military Men in general, on the Preservation and Recovery 
of their Health, By Witt1aM Bratr, 4.M. Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, 
Fellow of the Medical Societies of London, Paris, and Brussels, Sc. 
AMONG: the many publications of 
temporaryinterest, which the general 
arming of the nation has given rise to, 
the present compilation will be favour- 
ably distinguished, as containing much 
useful matter, selected from good and va- 
rious authorities, on all the functions of 
the hospital surgeon, and that important 
part of the duties of the officer which 
relates to the preservation of the health 
of his men. 
An abstract of this little compilation 
would be useless; the whole forms a 
very useful manual of health for the 
camp and military hospital. The chap- 
ter on diet and cookery is perhaps the 
best. 
A few wooden cuts are added, on the 
tourniquet and its application, the camp- 
ventilator, and a spring waggon for con+ 
veying the wounded. 
Art. XLIV. Anthropology, or the Natural History of Man; with a comparative View 
of the Structure and Functions of animated Beings in general. By WittiAmM Burair, 
A M. Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Surgeon of the Lock Hospital, Sc. pp. 
163. 8vo. 
~. A COPIOUS syllabus of the author’s 
lectures on physiology, which, if well 
filed up, would grow into a system 
nearly as complete.as the present state 
of knowledge would allow of. To con- 
clude with ec/at, Mr. Blair magnani- 
mously attacks the renowned system of 
craniognomy, devised by Dr. Gall, of 
Vienna, and congratulates us on our 
escape from a “ general contamination?’ 
of materialism, a system in which there 
is “too little of sound philosophy for 
thinking men, and too little of common 
sense for the vulgar.” 
