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inspection of Mr. Fyfe and Dr. Monro. It is 

 designed to compose a complete illustration, both 

 general and particular, of the human body, by a 

 selection from the best plates of all the greatest 

 anatomists, as well foreign as British, exhibiting 

 the latest discoveries, and accompanied with co- 

 pious explanations. The whole number of plates 

 is to be upwards of three hundred, in royal folio, 

 of which a large proportion are already published. 



The art of injection and of va^kAng preparations y 

 w^hich was before stated to have reached such a 

 point of excellence towards the close of the seven- 

 teenth century, has been very extensively and suc- 

 cessfully exercised during the eighteenth. The 

 modern practice of corroding the fieshy parts and 

 leaving the moulded wax entire, is so useful as well 

 as ornamental, that it reflects great credit on Dr. 

 NicHOLLS, the ingenious inventor. In the injec- 

 tion of the lactealsand lymphatics the late century 

 may justly claim the credit of having made very 

 considerable progress. 



Morbid dissections form a new and interesting 

 ^ra in anatomy and medicine. Bonetus, near the 

 end of the seventeenth century, had published his 

 Sepulchretiim Ajiatomicum. Morgagni, in his 

 inestimable work, " De causis et Sedibus Mor- 

 ." borum,'' has enriched morbid dissections with 

 many precious additions, and has rendered them 

 highly instructive to the medical practitioner. 

 LiEUTAUD and Haller have also greatly increased 

 the stock of knowledge on this point. Most of 

 the distinguished anatomists, indeed, have con- 

 tributed their exertions to improve the principles of 

 medicine, by directing their dissections to this ob- 

 ject. Lately Dr. Baillie's publications on morbid 

 anatomy, illustrated by correspondent engravings, 

 do the highest honour to hU ^diligence, learning, 

 and judgment. 



