REVIEW—GURLt’s ANATOMY OF THE HORSE. 49 
This reasoning refers to medical practice on a different kind 
of being from any of our patients, and it is conclusive there. But 
the value of Gurlt’swork is infinitely enhanced, when we consider 
that these animals, the various organs of w'hich are thus deline¬ 
ated, differing according to the different use and purpose of each, 
are our patients. We are not studjing comparative anatomy^ hut 
the structure of those whose diseases we are to alleviate, whose 
comforts we are to ‘promote, whose lives we are to prolong. This, 
at least, was the scope of the veterinary art in every former 
age, and is accounted to be so stiW in every school in Europe 
but one. 
The original work of Guilt was comprised in thirteen fasci¬ 
culi, each containing ten large engravings, with six or eight 
figures in each of the engravings. The work had its faults.— 
There was a roughness about the figures; but that was unavoid¬ 
able when it is considered that the price must not be great, 
in order to render so extensive a work saleable. The price w'as 
exceedingly reasonable ; each fasciculus, and which could be had 
monthly or quarterly as suited the convenience of the purchaser, 
cost only 7s. Qd. 
There were a few anatomical errors—there must need have 
been in so complicated a work. The reviewer once men¬ 
tioned some of them to Dr. Muyschell, who had assisted Dr. 
Gurlt in the preparation of the work, and, in fact, had borne the 
greater part of the labour, and who, after his appointment as 
Veterinary Professor at the unfortunate University at Wilna, 
was taking his two years’ tour, as he was compelled to do, in 
order to make himself acquainted with the practice of foreign 
schools. Dr. Muyschell replied, that there was not a single 
figure, the dissection for which had not been conducted by him¬ 
self or Gurlt, and the drawing as carefully compared with the 
subject. The reviewer remembers, that when he was pointing out 
one error in the stomachs of the ruminants, his conscience a lit¬ 
tle smote him, for the delineation was ten times truer to the 
original than that which was to be found in that expensive and 
national work, the Comparative Anatomy” of the late Sir Ed¬ 
ward Home. Gurlt’s is, in the main, a most accurate system of 
anatomy. 
Gurlt’s plates have been purchased by the spirited foreign book¬ 
seller, Mr. Schloss, of St. Martin’s Lane, and he determined to 
present them, or some of them, to the English veterinary stu¬ 
dent, with a translation and a very useful and skilfully per¬ 
formed enlargement of Gurlt’s too concise German and Latin 
explanation of the figures. He could not have made the veterinary 
student a more valuable present, if, with the exception of the 
improved explanation, he had strictly adhered to the plan of 
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