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& c. ; they likewise look with interest on the productions, na- 
tural and chemical, out of which the doctor culls remedies for 
those ills which so easily beset them. In veterinary surgery, 
displays may be made of cauterizing and other instruments, as 
well as of apparatus used for casting and securing horses and 
other animals in order to render them subservient to operations 
deemed necessary for the removal of their infirmities or de- 
formities. But, in the veterinary line, few things are apt to 
create so great an interest in the public mind as horseshoes , of 
which some of the best make of our own, and some few of 
rougher manufacture, American, appear in the Exhibition. 
Both in instruments and horseshoes, indeed, something has been 
done for veterinary science, but it has been very moderately 
done. The instruments are but few, and the horseshoes are but 
old acquaintances with brightened faces or in handsome cases. 
There is, however, an article of exhibition in the French de- 
partment which may well lay claim to our attention. If not quite 
new in its design, it is at least of novel character with us, and 
will, if we are not mistaken in our estimate of the merits of the in- 
genious fabric, elicit — if it have not already elicited — from veteri- 
narians greater admiration than any thing immediately in their 
province which the Crystal Palace contains. A Dr. Auzoux has 
brought with him from Paris, for exhibition, wax models of 
the human and equine bodies, so constructed that, like a child’s 
puzzle, admitting of being taken apart, piece by piece, they 
display to the spectator — first, the body, as it appears after 
being flayed or stripped of its skin ; secondly, the superficial 
muscles and faschise being removed, the deep-seated muscles 
and bones ; thirdly, the cavities being opened by opening of the 
body, after the manner of a box, into two hollow compartments, 
the viscera and the principal bloodvessels, the branch vessels, 
and nerves being apparent through each stage of the dissection, 
in their proper relative courses. Besides the two entire models 
of man and horse, there are several others of separate parts of 
the body, among which one of the foot of the horse is par- 
ticularly curious and interesting. There is also a series of 
models of the jaws of horses representative of age, from birth 
to the twentieth year. We have, we believe in error, called 
these, wax models : they are made of some “ composition,’’ 
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