INTROD.] REGISTER OF DISSECTIONS : FORM. IS 



pointed by the government to make enquiries 

 hereon, at Montfaucon, the great knacker-yard of 

 France, reports that the trade of horse slaughtering 

 is not only innoxious but sanitary. 



9. To render his labours efficient to after pur- 

 poses, our student should keep a paper book or re- 

 gister, ruled up and down, stating in sundry columns 

 the appearance of each subject, so far as regards 

 the vital organs at least, after this fashion. 



We will shew presently what kind of entry is proper 

 to be made under each head of information, by Way 

 of making a beginning ; but he will not be left to 

 grope his way in the dark, if he will study with 

 proper industry the further details to be found in the 

 second chapter of this book. For this purpose, the 

 dead animal being doivn on its back, two legs on 

 the same side are to be made fast by cords round 

 the fetlocks, to a beam or nail of the shed. Then, 

 with a good tempered knife, let him enter the skin 

 at the sheath, and continue the mark straight up to 

 the breast bone ; hereupon it will recede, leaving 

 the membrane of a bluish cast, if healthy, appearing 

 through the fissure. The young operator will be 

 careful not to cut the skin in flaying, for a fine is 

 imposed for every such clumsiness, by act of Par- 



