658 PROGRESS OF VETERINARY SCIENCE AND ART. 
In this manner an apparently unimportant observation may 
acquire incalculable worth ; a well-known accident caused 
Newton to detect the law of gravitation, that dominates 
throughout the world. In the infancy of science we are 
satisfied with observations ; later explanations are sought. 
Unfortunately, in medicine, the observer often starts out with 
a preconceived notion. He only sees that which corresponds 
with his opinion, and we must be content if nothing more is 
added to it ; for this reason there are simple, complete, and 
trustworthy observations of lasting merit, which may be com- 
pared to a glass with facets reflecting light in different ways. 
Veterinary science is scarcely over that infantile condition, 
hence is so much observed, but little explained. 
Under the head ee Anatomy in the Canstatt Report, several 
important things are alluded to. Goubaux has examined the 
anatomical characters of the nose in that singular breed of 
pointers whose nostrils are completely separated by a median 
groove of greater or less depth. The upper lip is also divided ; 
and, as in the dromedary, each half moves independently of 
its fellow. The buccal orifices of Jacobson’s organ are indi- 
cated by a tubercle met with in the triangular space between 
the two middle incisor teeth, that are broad apart at the base, 
but converge at their cutting edge. This is in consequence of 
the separation existing between the anterior mamillary bones. 
Each nasal bone, separated from its fellow, is furnished on 
the inner margin with a complimentary piece of cartilage, 
which gives to it a symmetrical appearance; and from this 
each nostril becomes distinct from its fellow. Goubaux has 
compared this condition of the nose with cases of hare-lip in 
man, but could detect no characters in common, and double- 
nosed dogs never have the fissured gums so frequent in hare- 
up. See Uecueil de Med. Vet. for July, 1855. 
Professor Muller, of Vienna, has described a true articular 
connection between the sacrum and iliac bones in the horse, 
dog, and ox. This arrangement has been shown by Luschka 
to exist in man. It is an amphiarthrodial joint, with cartilage 
of incrustation, capsular ligament, but little synovia. Al- 
though this joint is only of very limited action, it is important 
in the widening of the pelvis during parturition. See Viertel 
jahreschrift fur wissenchaftlicJie Veterinarmedizin. Wien, vi, 
p. 34 . 
Professor Muller has also described the foramen of Winslow 
in the horse. I spoke of it in my essay on the abdominal 
viscera in 1852. Muller defines its situation with greater 
precision ; it is between the spigelian lobe of the liver and 
upper surface of the colon, over the duodenum and bundle of 
