ANATOMY. 
hours of Soemmerring, who still prosecutes 
the study of anatomy with unwearied indus- 
try. We have lately from his hands, two 
most finished productiQns in e.very respect, 
on the anatomy of the eye and ear. It 
would be unjust not to enumerate with a 
due tribute of applause, the labours ofZinn, 
Cassebohm, and Scarpa, on the same subjects. 
Morgagni, who taught anatomy in Pa- 
dua, published a work of great utility on 
morbid anatomy. Dr. Baillie has of late in 
this country prosecuted the same subject, 
though in a different manner. He has pub- 
lished a book on the morbid anatomy of the 
body, and has illustrated his descriptions by 
a collection of the most elegant, expres- 
sive, and accurate plates. 
Winslow, Sabatier, and Bichat, are the 
authors of the most approved anatomical 
systems in France, and Soemmerring and 
Hildebrandt in Germany. We regret that 
it is not in our power to mention any cor- 
rect and complete system by an English 
writer. The imperfect and contemptible 
ephemeral productions published under the 
auspices of booksellers, cannot have a place 
in this enumeration. 
UTILITY OF ANATOMY. 
Astronomy and anatomy, as Fontenelle 
observes, are the studies which present us 
with the most striking view of the two great- 
est attributes of the Supreme Being. The 
first of these fills the mind with the idea of 
his immensity, in the largeness, distances, 
and number of the heavenly bodies ; the 
last astonishes with his intelligence and art 
in the variety and delicacy of animal me- 
chanism. 
The human body has been commonly 
enough known by the name of microeos- 
mus ; as if it did not differ so much from 
the universal system of nature, in the sym- 
metry and number of its parts, as in their 
size. 
Galen's excellent treatise on the use of 
the parts was composed as a prose hymn 
to the Creator; and abounds with as irre- 
sistible proofs of a Supreme Cause, and go- 
verning Providence, as we find in modern 
physico-theoiogy. And Cicero dwells more 
on the structure and economy of animals, 
than on all the productions of nature besides, 
when he wants to prove the existence of the 
Gods from the order and beauty of the 
universe. He there takes a survey of the 
body of man in a most elegant synopsis of 
anatomy, and concludes thus ; “ Quibus re- 
bus expositis, satis docuisse videor, homi- 
nis natura quanto omnes anteiret animales. 
Ex quo debet intelligi, nec figuram situm- 
que membrorum, nec ingenii inentisqu® 
vim talem effiei potuisse fortuna.” The 
satisfaction of mind which arises from the 
study of anatomy, and the influence which 
it must naturally have on our minds as phi- 
losophers, cannot be better conveyed than 
by the following passage from the same au- 
thor; “ Quae contnens animus, accepit ab 
his cognitionem deorum, ex qua oritur pie- 
tas : cui conjuncta justitia est, reliquaeque 
virtutes ; ex quibus vita beata exsistit, par 
et similis deorum, nulla alia re nisi immor- 
talitate, qnas nihil ad bene vivendmn perti- 
net, cedens ecelestibus.” 
It would be endless to quote the ani- 
mated passages ofthis sort, which are to be 
found in the physicians, philosophers, and 
theologists, who have considered the struc- 
ture and functions of animals, with a view 
towards the Creator. It is a view that 
must strike us with the most awful con- 
viction. Who can know and consider the 
thousand evident proofs of the astonishing 
art of the Creator, in forming and sustain- 
ing an animal body such as ours, without 
feeling the most pleasing enthusiasm ? Can 
we seriously reflect upon this awful subject 
without being almost lost in adoration? 
Without longing for another life after this, 
in which we may be gratified with the high- 
est enjoyment which our faculties arid 
nature seem capable of, the seeing and 
comprehending the whole plan of the Crea- 
tor, in forming the universe, and directing 
its operations. 
In the excellent work of Archdeacon 
Paley, on, natural theology, this view of the 
subject is most ably explained and illus- 
trated ; and the subject is pursued through 
all its details. We strongly recommend 
this work, as exhibiting in a popular form 
a very interesting view of the structure and 
functions of animal bodies ; and we subjoin 
the following extract as a very successful 
application of the argument. 
“ It has been said, that a man cannot lift 
his hand to his head without finding enough 
to convince him of the existence of a God. 
And it is well said ; for he has only to re- 
flect, familiar as this action is, and simple 
as it seems to be, how many things are re- 
quisite for the performing of it : how many 
things which we understand, to say nothing 
of many more, probably, which we do not ; 
viz. first, a long, hard, strong cylinder to 
give to the arm its firmness and tension ; 
but which, being rigid, and, in its substance 
