48 REVIEW—gurlt’s anatomy of the horse. 
face, is worth the whole five devoted to that region of the horse 
by MM. Le Blanc and Trousseau. 
To these we may add the singularly distinct and accumte 
plates of the bony and muscular systems of the horse, by Brunot, 
the sculptor, designed for the artist, but a perfect study for the 
anatomist;—the skeleton being first given divided into various 
portions, and placed in every position, and each of these por¬ 
tions afterwards clothed with muscles, and, so far as the ex¬ 
ternal layer goes, faithful to the minutest point. 
The great treasure of the veterinary anatomist appeared in 
1824. E. F. Gurlt, Veterinary Professor at the University of 
Berlin, then began to publish his anatomy of domesticated ani¬ 
mals. Every portion of eveiy system of the horse, and ox, and 
sheep, and swine, and dog, and cat, whether osseous, mus¬ 
cular, sensorial, circulatory, respiratory, digestive, urinary, ge¬ 
nerative, or absorbent, w^as delineated with general, and some¬ 
times painful accuracy. It was a rich treat, and afforded a 
fund of inexhaustible improvement, to trace the varying struc¬ 
ture of every organ, corresponding with the wants and the 
destiny of each animal. The little half-compound stomach of the 
horse, an herbivorous animal, designed to serve us by his strength 
and his speed, presented itself in one plate—we turned the leaf, 
and we had the complex stomachs of the ox, still an herbivorous 
animal, but who w^as to pay us with his flesh and his fat:— 
the next leaf gave us the simpler stomach of the omnivorous 
hog, and w^e admired the pyramidal appendix and the glandular 
apparatus which fitted the viscus for the digestion of the hetero¬ 
geneous food it might receive; while the simple stomach of the dog 
was suited to the sdready-half-assimilated food on which he was to 
subsist. The different form of the colon and the ccecum in all these 
animals, connected with that of the stomach, and also with their 
destiny, formed another division of pleasing study. In the lan¬ 
guage of Mr. Lawrence, The basis of our physiological prin¬ 
ciples was rendered broader and deeper, in proportion as our 
survey of living beings was more extensive. The varieties of or¬ 
ganization supplied, in the investigation of each function, the most 
important aids of analogy, comparison, contrast, and various 
combination ; and the nature of the process received, at every 
step, fresh elucidation. These enlarged views, which unfold to 
us the natural play of the animal mechanism, are our surest 
guide in the study of its deranged motions ;—an essential crite¬ 
rion for estimating the nature and degree of the deviation, and an 
important indication by which it may be corrected. Thus, ge¬ 
neral anatomy and physiology furnish the principles by which 
we are guided in our attempts to preserve health, to alleviate 
and remove disorder, and to cure disease.” • 
