262 REVIEW ON THE STUDY OF SURGERY. 
I have had stuffed, and intend to preserve it, as well as the 
skeleton. 
About a month since, a lamb was extracted by a shepherd 
near this town with two distinct heads, one spine, and two tips 
to its tail. Both esophagus and trachea united, and formed one 
canal down the neck. 
10th March, 1851. 
*** We should feel gratified at seeing the drawing Mr. M. 
has had made of this prodigy. — Ed. Vet. 
REVIEW. 
Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non. — H or. 
On the Study of Surgery ; an Address introductory to the Course 
of Surgery delivered at University College, London, at the 
opening of the Session 1850-51, by Mr. Erichsen, Professor of 
Surgery in University College, and Surgeon to University College 
Hospital. London: Taylor, Walton and Maberly. 
DELIVERED, as the address before us was, to a numerous 
assembly of distinguished men of science and zealous students, 
in one of the most celebrated medical schools of Europe, it 
might, d priori , be presumed, and will on* attentive perusal be 
found, to convey important truths and instructive maxims of the 
highest order. Yet at first sight, it might be supposed that 
our readers could be little concerned with the sentiments ex- 
pressed, ex cathedra , at the opening of a medical session in 
University College ; even though it be an institution pre-emi- 
nently renowned for the learning of its professors, and for the 
liberality of its constitution, which, spurning the uncharitable 
custom of too many of our great educational establishments, 
offers to all, whether Jews or Gentiles, Mahommedans or Greeks, 
the means of acquiring a profound knowledge in the greatest of 
all sciences. When, however, we pause for one instant to reflect 
on the uniformity of the laws which govern animated nature, 
the conviction is forced upon us, that the precepts imparted in 
