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IRREGULARITY IN THE BEATING OF THE 
Gurlt; but we cannot help thinking, that, very wrongly, advised, 
and forgetting the true scope of the student’s inquiries, he has 
destroyed the charm of the work, as one of comparative anatomy, 
and rendered it incomplete as an elementary book, by leaving 
out the ox, the sheep, the dog. See., and giving us merely the 
anatomy of the horse; while he has, as it were, lent his aid to 
the perpetuation of that incomplete and inadequate system of in¬ 
struction—incomplete and inadequate, at least so far as the num¬ 
ber of subjects is concerned,—which has rendered the English 
school a kind of by-word and reproach in every continental one. 
To him, however, who is interested in the horse alone, and 
to the student who confines his inquiries to the horse, it is still 
a most valuable present. It supplies one of the desiderata 
for which the pupil had been anxiously inquiring; and it will 
facilitate his studies in a most important degree. No veterinaiy 
student should be without either Gurlt’s Anatomy of the Domes¬ 
ticated Quadrupeds, or Gurlt’s Anatomy of the Horse, as pub¬ 
lished by Schlosi. If he determines on the former, he may be 
supplied with the parts monthly, or at any intervals that suit 
his convenience and his means ; and then he should have them 
from Schloss, as an acknowledgment of thankfulness for be¬ 
ing introduced to so excellent an auxiliary in the pursuit of 
his studies. If he is satisfied with the horse, the gain of the 
publisher will be the greater. The cost of the complete work 
will be £4 17s. 6d., and that of the Anatomy of the Horse 
alone, £3. 5s. 
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Observations on an Irregularity in the Beating 
OF THE Heart and the Respiratory Action in a 
Horse. 
By M. Levrat, Vet . Suryeon , Lausanne . 
On the 20th of April, 1830, I was called in to see a draught 
mare,of the Swiss breed, about twenty years old, which belonged 
to M. Chapuy, livery stable-keeper at Lausanne. 
' He told me that this mare had for fifteen years been accustomed 
to draw a small chariot; that, on the day before, she was in good 
health, but that on the morning of the 20th, when the servant 
came to take he^out of the stable in order , to rub her down, he 
perceived that the whole of her frame was agitated by a sudden 
convulsive motion. He also added that she was vicious to all 
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the other horses. - ^ 
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Symptoms .—The animal had scarcely any appetite; ' she did 
