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Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non.—Hoii. 
The Anatomy of the Horse. By Dr. E. F. Gurlt, [Professor 
in the Veterinary College in Berlin. Translated from the 
original German, by F. Willimott, Member of the Universities 
of Berlin, &c. &c., and dedicated, by permission, to E. Cole¬ 
man, Esq. Professor of the Veterinary College, London. 
Price £1. 125. 6d. The Work will be complete in two parts, 
the last being in great forwardness. 
The want of good anatomical plates has long been deplored 
by the veterinary pupil, and the practitioner too; and strong 
language has occasionally been used as to the injustice or dis¬ 
grace of our being deprived of these requisites for the attain¬ 
ment of the fundamental knowledge of our art. The disgrace, 
however, attached to the profession generally, for a few years 
only have passed, since the intellectual calibre and character 
of our profession has been such as to justify any man of com¬ 
mon prudence in embarking in so laborious and expensive a 
work. 
More than one hundred and fifty years ago, Snape published 
his Anatomical Treatise on the Horse.'’ It was not the result 
of the author's own dissections : it was a mere copy from foreign 
plates, and it was full of blunders. A large engraving of the 
muscles of the horse, and copied from Snape’s book, is indus¬ 
triously displayed in some of the print shops. Caveat emptor ! 
It is a mere burlesque on anatomy. 
Nearly a century after him, Stubbs, a painter by profession, 
and chiefly an animal painter, published a series of engravings 
representing the muscular and osseous systems of the horse. He 
was a very fair anatomist, but far from being a correct one; and 
too frequently sacrificed anatomical exactness to the production 
of effect. 
To this followed, many years afterwards. Blame's Anatomy 
of the Horse,” a work which deserved far greater patronage than 
it received ; for although it was addressed, as it naturally would 
be, considering the state of the veterinary art at that time, more 
to the amateur than the student, and traced more the super¬ 
ficial and popular, than the minuter and scientific anatomy of 
