af « Mistellanies, 199 
Tn conclusion, it may not be amiss to state, that the whole is written in 
the same easy and agreeable style as the other works of its distinguished 
author. 
8. Outlines of Anatomy and Physiology, translated from the French 
of H. Milne Edwards, M.D. &c., by J. I. W. Lane, M.D. Boston, 
Charles C, Little and James Brown, 1841. _ pp. 312.—This treatise was 
- intended as an introduction to a work on zoology by the same author. It 
gives us a general outline of the anatomical structure and physiological 
action of the different systems of organs of which animal bodies are com- 
posed; also those general characters and properties of living beings 
which could not with propriety be introduced into the body of a zoolog- 
ical treatise. It is written in a popular style, and is sufficiently free from 
technicalities to render it interesting and intelligible to a non-professional 
reader 
Before entering into a description of the individual functions and their 
organs, those properties are enumerated which are common to all living 
beings, and by which they are distinguished from common inert matter, 
viz. their mode of origin, structure and chemical composition, powers of 
nutrition, reproduction, and the definite duration of their existence ; also 
the characteristics by which animals are distinguished from vegetables, 
the former having, in addition to the properties parneses by the latter, 
Sensibility and voluntary motion. 
The different functions, and the organs by which Gee are perhcrmed, 
are arranged in three great divisions, viz. those of nutrition, relation, and 
reproduction, Under the first head, are described the blood, its proper- 
ties, the apparatus and mechanism of its circulation, exhalation, secre- 
tion, respiration, animal. ie and digestion: under the second 
are arranged those organs d functions by which animals are made 
acquainted with, and are enabled to act upon external objects, viz. the 
Sensorial, intellectual, motory, and vocal; and under the third head, 
those which are subservient to the preservation of the species, viz. those 
of generation. 
In treating of the different functions first enumerated, it is the object 
of the author to describe them as they exist in man, and compare with " 
them those of which the lower orders of animals are the sea In so do- 
ing, he has placed the subject of physiology under a very attractive form ; 
and we trust that the work will be extensively circulated, and that it may 
conduce still farther to develop that taste for the science of which it treats, 
among the unprofessional public. ‘The translation of the work is in some 
respects objectionable, the technical words being, in many cases, literally 
rendered, instead of substituting for them the corresponding English tech- 
nical expressions. We have no hesitation, however, in saying, that ~ 
high merit and reputation of Dr. Edwards as a physiologist 
gist, and the interest which is felt by the public in anatumical peer 
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