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little known, is divided into five books, each with its own 

 series of wood engravings. The original edition is now 

 very scarce. The first hook deals with the anatomy of 

 the head generally, and includes the skull, the muscles 

 and vessels, the teeth at different ages, the brain and its 

 membranes, the sense organs, and the mouth and tongue; 

 book II. is concerned with the neck and thorax, its 

 skeleton and muscles, the hyoid and larynx, the nerves 

 and vessels of the neck, the heart and lungs and the 

 diaphragm; book III. relates to the abdominal contents 

 and tail, the gut and its glands, mesentery and 

 peritoneum, renal organs, the great vessels of the 

 abdomen, the vertebral column and skeleton of the 

 pelvic region, and we note also a scheme of the portal 

 vein clearly inspired by that of Vesalius; book IV. is an 

 account of the genital organs in both sexes, the develop- 

 ment of the horse, and the structure of the foetus and 

 placenta ; book V. completes the work with a detailed 

 description of the topographical anatomy of the fore and 

 hind limbs, to which he has evidently given close 

 attention, and in addition there are seven figures of a 

 general character summarising the more important 

 features of the skeleton, veins and arteries, nerves and 

 muscles. The schemes of the arteries, veins and nerves 

 recall the least inspired and convincing efforts of 

 Vesalius. 



VI. 



The transition from the monographic to the 

 systematic treatment of animal anatomy is a step so 

 familiar to the modern anatomist that the slow and 

 halting movements of the old masters arouse only his 

 wonder and contempt. The possibilities and importance 

 of monographic anatomy had been successively demon- 



