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and accompanied with copious explanations. The 

 ■whole number of plates is to be upwards of three 

 hundred, in royal folio 3 of which a large proportion 

 is already published. 



The art of injection and of making preparations^ 

 which 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 fleshy parts and 

 leaving the moulded wax entire, is so useful as well 

 as ornamental, that it reflects great credit on Dr. 

 NichoUs, the ingenious inventor. In the injection 

 of the lacteals and lymphatics, the late centiuy may 

 justly claim the credit of having made very conside- 

 rable progress. 



Alorbid dissections form a new and interesting 

 aera in anatomy and medicine. Bonetus, near the 

 end of the seventeenth century, had published his 

 Sepulchre turn Anatonicum. Morgagni, in his in- 

 estimable work, " De Causis et Sedibus Morborujny' 

 has enriched morbid dissections with many valuable 

 additions, and has rendered them highly instructive 

 to the medical practitioner. Lieutaud and Haller 

 also greatly increased the stock of knowledge on 

 this point. ^lost of the distinguished anatomists, 

 indeed, liave contributed their exertions to im- 

 prove the principles of medicine, by directing their 

 dissections to this object. Lately Dr. Baillie^s pub- 

 lications. on morbid anatomy, illustrated by corre- 

 spondent engravings, do the highest honour to his 

 diligence, learniiig, and judgement. 



Beside the discoveries and improvements ob- 

 tained from the dissection of human bodies, Compa- 



