2 1 4 Medicme. 



ferences between the filial and adult vessels; Dr. 

 Monro, jun. on the Bursa MucoscCy &c. 



The anatomists of the eighteenth century have 

 effected great improvements in the science, and 

 facihtated the communication of it to students, by 

 the number and correctness of their engravings. 

 Figures of the bones, in folio, have been pubUshed 

 by Cheselden, Albinus, Sue and Trew. The 

 muscles are exhibited by Cowper and Albinus 

 with great accuracy; by the latter particularly in a 

 style of elegance which cannot easily be surpassed. 

 Haller's I cones, especially of the arteries, are 

 much admired. Anatomical figures of particular 

 and smaller parts of the body are v/ithout number, 

 and many of them possess great excellence. It 

 will be sufficient to mention a few ; such as those 

 by Morgagni, Ruysch, Valsalva, Sanctorini, 

 Heister, Vater, Cant, Zimmerman, Walter, 

 &c. 



The vast work, projected by Vicq-d'-Azyr, of 

 France, was soon terminated by his premature 

 death. He conceived the idea of representing 

 anatomically the whole animal kingdom, from man 

 down to the simplest hydra, of giving exact figures 

 of every form of living matter, and of consoli- 

 dating the immense plan into one great whole. 

 Upon the brain alone nineteen folio plates are em- 

 ployed, of which several are coloured; these are 

 executed with admirable elegance. This universal 

 system of anatomy and physiology, both human 

 and comparative, was proposed to be executed in 

 the same splendid style. But he lived only to finish 

 five numbers. The design is apparently too ex- 

 tensive to be accomplished within the period of a 

 single life. 



In Great-Britain, likewise, an extensive anato- 

 mical work has been undertaken by Mr. Andrew 

 Bell, entitled, Anatomia Britannica, under the 



