PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY. 
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REVIEW. 
Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non. — H or. 
A Treatise on Pathological Anatomy. By G. Andral, Professor 
to the Faculty of Medicine of Paris. Translated from the French, 
by Drs. R. Townsend and W. West. 2 vols. 1829 and 1831. 
We have often been ashamed of ourselves that a work which 
is an honour to the French school, which finds its proper place in 
the library of every scientific inquirer, and which is devoted, and 
satisfactorily so, to one of the most important subjects that can 
occupy the attention of the medical or veterinary inquirer, has not 
been reviewed by us. Perhaps the very importance of the subject, 
and the difficulty of giving a simple and satisfactory account of 
such a work, has had considerable influence on our minds. General 
morbid anatomy! — what a wide and noble and fearful field ! Were 
we, however, induced by no other motive to attempt our too long 
neglected task, gratitude to this gentleman for the high, we will not 
say undeserved, consideration with which he regards our especial 
division of medical science, should spur on to the discharge of our 
duty. He has condescended to mingle intimately with many of 
the professors of the veterinary art — he speaks kindly of them — he 
acknowledges his obligations to them — and last, and not least, he 
never disgraces them by the adoption of many a false and fanciful 
theory, now discarded by the great bulk of our profession. 
M. Andral is convinced of the importance of the establishment 
of a few plain but important principles. The simplicity with which 
he states them is beautiful. “ In every part of organized living 
matter there are three grand fundamental actions uninterruptedly 
going forward — capillary circulation, nutrition, and secretion. These 
phenomena, although presenting an almost infinite variety of sim- 
plicity or complication, are, nevertheless, constant and uniform in 
their ultimate results. 
“ I. Capillary circulation. A fluid under the different denomi- 
nations of blood , or lymph, or sap, deposits in the various tissues, 
and subsequently retakes from them, the materials of which all the 
solids and fluids are composed. In the intimate structure of every 
tissue there exist a series of currents directed in their movements 
by forces independent of those which serve to propel the blood 
through the arterial system. In this intimate structure the fluids 
and solids come into contact, and become blended together and 
amalgamated, and the blood or some analogous fluid is abstracted 
