REVIEW—^GURLT'S ANATOMY OF THE HORSE. 47 
the horse, it was singularly accurate, for the subject of every 
engraving was dissected, and the drawing made, and sometimes 
even the engraving executed, by Mr. Blaine. It is now out of 
print and scarce, but it will be valued by every one who has the 
good luck to meet with it. 
Of the foot, Mr. Freeman furnished us with some splendid 
and tolerably accurate delineation; and Professor Coleman's 
series of coloured engravings of that important organ surpasses 
every thing the veterinary world can present us in beauty and 
fidelity. Besides these we had nothing, or worse than nothing. 
We had an ugly and unsatisfactory plate of the teeth of the horse 
as connected with his age—sections of the horse which repre¬ 
sented nothing with which the tyro was not well acquainted be¬ 
fore he had been one fortnio-ht at College—and sections of the 
head, prettily executed, and instructive, so far as the nasal cavity 
was concerned, but failing to give the slightest useful informa¬ 
tion with regard to the common sensorium and the origins of 
the nerves. 
Kirtland would have prepared a beautiful and moderately 
priced series of paintings of the bones and muscles of the horse ; 
but after much expenditure of time and entreaty, he could 
muster only five subscribers. We were, therefore, driven to foreign 
schools for assistance in this branch of our art, as in too many 
others, and we were not disappointed. 
In 1828, appeared the Anatomie Chirurgicale des princi- 
pauxAnimaux Domestiques," of Messrs. Leblanc and Trousseau. 
Most of the plates are coloured, and faithfully executed; but 
they are of too miscellaneous a nature—they do not form a con¬ 
nected series, nor do they touch upon the most important points 
of surgical anatomy ; but the majority of them are wasted on 
comparatively uninteresting subjects. The anatomy of the re¬ 
gion of the parotid gland did not require six plates out of the 
thirty ; and too many were thrown away on the teeth of the 
horse. Still they were valuable, and find a place in most 
of our libraries. 
To these succeeded a smaller but most elaborate work, con¬ 
sisting but of two fasciculi of three plates in each,—Bigot’s ‘'Ana¬ 
tomic des Regions du corps du Cheval, consideree specialment 
dans ses rapports avec la chirurgie et la medecine operatoire.” 
Bigot was Professor of Anatomy at Alfort, and well qualified 
for such a work. It includes the surgical anatomy of the leg 
and foot, the parotidean and subzygomatic regions, the inguinal 
and testicular regions—the caudal and perinseal—the external 
part of the chest and shoulder, and the left side of the neck to the 
head. Bigot’s single plate of the parotid, and the side of the 
