ANATOMY. 



elegantly represented and described by 

 Albums, Cheselden, Sue, and Cowper. 

 The vascular system has been illustrated 

 by a splendid work of the immortal Haller. 

 Walker And Meckel of Berlin, and Scarpa 

 at Pavia, have bestowed equal, or even 

 superior, diligence in tracing the distribu- 

 tion of the most important nerves, and re- 

 presenting 1 them in faithful engravings. 

 Mr. Cruikshank distinguislied himself by 

 an excellent book on the absorbing sys- 

 tem; and Mascagni has lately given to the 

 public a most elaborate account of the ab- 

 sorbing vessels, with very splendid plates. 

 Dr. Hunter, to whom anatomy owes more 

 in this country than to any individual, has 

 published a complete history, with beauti- 

 ful explanatory engravings, of the growth 

 f the human ovum, and of the clianges 

 which the uterus undergoes after the 

 ovum has been received into its cavity. 

 His brother, Mr. John Hunter, also de- 

 mands mention \n this place, as an accu- 

 rate and minute dissector, and a patient 

 experimentalist He surveyed, in his re- 

 searches, the whole field of animated na- 

 ture, and greatly promoted the science 

 of phisiology. He formed also the grand- 

 est and most beautiful anatomical cabinet 

 in Europe ; and this precious treasure has 

 now passed into the hands of the Itoyol 

 College of Surgeons in London. The 

 structure of the brain has been represent- 

 ed with unrivalled elegance by Vicq 

 D'Azyr, a French anatomist, in a folio 

 volume of coloured plates, which we hesi- 

 tate not to applaud as a chef d'otuvre of 

 anatomical science, and a most splendid 

 monument of the arts. Some parts of 

 this most important organ have also been 

 illustrated by the labours of Soemmering, 

 who still prosecutes the study of anatomy 

 with unwearied industry. We have late- 

 ly, from his hands, two most finished pro- 

 ductions, in every respect, on the anatomy 

 of the eye and car. It would be unjust 

 not to enumerate, with a due tribute of 

 applause, the labours of Zinn, Casscbohm, 

 and Scarpa, on the same subjects. 



Morgagni, vho taught anatomy in Pa- 

 dua, published a work of great utility on 

 morbid anatomy. Dr. Baillie has of late in 

 this country prosecuted the satin.- subject, 

 though in a different manner. He has 

 published a book on the morbid anatomy 

 of the body, and has illustrated his descrip- 

 tions by a collection of the most elegant, 

 expressive, and accurate pi. 



^Vinslow, Sabatier, and BicUat, are the 

 authors of the most approved anatomical 

 system* in France, and Soemmering and 

 llildebrant in Germany. \Ve, regret thai 

 it is not in our power to mention any cor- 



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rect and complete system by an English 

 writer. The imperfect and contemptible, 

 ephemeral productions, published under 

 the auspices of booksellers, cannot have a 

 place in this enumeration. 



VTI1ITT OF AVAT03CT. 



Astronomy and anatomy, as Fontenelle 

 observes, are the studies which present 

 us with the most striking view of the two 

 greatest attribute^ of the Supreme Being. 

 The first of these fills the mind with the 

 idea of his immensity, in the largeness, 

 distances, and number of the heavenly 

 bodies ; the last astonishes, with his intel- 

 ligence and art in the variety and delicacy 

 of animal mechanism. 



The human body has been commonly 

 enough known by the namje of microcos- 

 mus ; as if it did not differ so much fronj 

 the universal system of nature, in the sym- 

 metry and number of its parts, as in their 

 size. 



Galen's excellent treatise on the use of 

 the parts was composed as a prose hymn 

 to the Creator, and abounds with us irre- 

 sistible proofs of a Supreme Cause, and 

 gorerning Providence, as we find in mo- 

 dern phisico-theology. And Cicero dwells 

 more on the structure and economy of 

 animals, than on all the productions of na- 

 ture besides, when he wants to prove the 

 existence of the Gods, from the order and 

 beauty of the universe. He there takes a 

 survey of the body of man, in a most ele- 

 gant synopsis cf anatomy, and concludes 

 thus ; " Quibus rebus expositis, satis do- 

 cuissevideor.hominisnaturaquantoomnes 

 anteiretanhnales. F.x quo de-bet intelligi, 

 nee figurant situmque membrorum, nee 

 ingenii mcni'sque vim ta?cm efficipotuiwe 

 fortuna," The satisfaction of mind which 

 arises from the study of anatomy, and the 

 influence which it must naturally have on 

 our minds as philosophers, cannot be bet- 

 ter conveyed than by the following pas- 

 sage from the same author; " Quxcontu- 

 ens animus, accepit ab his cognitionom 

 deorum, ex qua oritur pietas : cui con- 

 juncta justitia est, reliquxque virtutcs; 

 ex quibus vita beata exsistit, par et simili> 

 deorum, mdla alia re nisi immortalitate, 

 quac nihil ad benc vivendum pertinet, 

 ccdcns ccelcstibus." 



It would be endless to quote the ani- 

 mated passages of this sort-, which 

 be found in the physicians, philosopher*, 

 and theologists, who have cc . 

 structure and functions of air. 

 view towards the Creator, 

 that must strike us wih the most awful 

 conviction, \\lio tn know nd consider 



