French National Institute. 1S5 



on the contrary, t'ne palate narrow, and its cavities filled 



Experience lias taught M. Tenon that it is dangerous to 

 perform any operation for the hare- lip at ihe time wiien the 

 teeth are cutting. 



The class has witnessed with great satisfaction a valuable 

 method of teaching certain branches of anatomy, in the 

 pieces of artificial anatomy prepared for the School of Me- 

 dicine by M. Laumonier, of Rouen. Tlnere is reason to be- 

 lieve that the account given by the School of Medicine of 

 this new process will contribute to the erection of an esta- 

 blishment where this art will be practised as successfully as 

 it is in Italy: in the exactitude of the details, ar.d in the truth 

 of the imitation, M. Laumonier exceeds the Italian school. 



The class has directed that these artificial anatomical pre- 

 parations should be confined to the representation of such 

 singular or mnristrous conformaiions which rarely occur. 



M. Laumonier has presented to the class one of the most 

 singular monstrosities which has been ever observed in the 

 human species, and a conformation which, perhaps, ap- 

 proaches more closely than any yet known to a perfect her- 

 maphroditism. A woman had, besides all the organs of her 

 PCX, two testicles, well formed, concealed in the folds of the 

 great labia, and the vasa deferentia of which end in the bot- 

 tom of the matrix. 



M. Pictet, correspondent and professor of physics at Ge- 

 neva, has sent to us a drav.'ing of a monstrous colt, born at 

 Locre, in the county of Ncufchatel : it had cloven hoofs, 

 representing claws ; its head was larger and shaggier than 

 usual. The peasants killed it from superstition ; and they 

 attributed its malconforniation to a fright which the mother 

 had received from two bears that were once shut up in the 

 same stable with her. 



A young physician, M. Duvcrnoy, has presented to the 

 class a memoir upon the hymen, where he has shown that 

 this singular membrane, hitherto generally regarded as pe- 

 culiar to the human species, is also to be found in every 

 animal. 



The same author has published the three subsequent vo- 

 lumes 



