448 REVIEW—KIGOT’S ARTICULATIONS OF THE HOUSE. 
examinations will not be readily blled np. All who were ac¬ 
quainted with Mr. Henderson admired him for the varied and 
superior qualities of his mind, and the warm and benevolent feel¬ 
ings of his heart. 
As a practitioner, Mr. Henderson has not left a better behind 
him on this or the other side of the Tweed ; and a man with so 
kind a heart will not be found on either of the sides. Few men 
will be found that are willing to give themselves much trouble or 
inconvenience for the sake of obliging a friend, let his circum¬ 
stances demand it ever so much. Not so Mr. Henderson ; but 
from the overflowings of a generous heart he was often known 
to expose himself to considerable risk and serious inconvenience 
for the sake of obliging some needy friend. In the words of 
Goldsmith, 
“His very failings leaned to virtue’s side.” 
Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non.—H or. 
A Treatise on the Articulations of the Horse. Bt / 
J. F. Rigot, Chief of the Anatomical Works at the Royal 
Veterinary School of Alfort. Paris, Bechet, Jun. 1827. 
Nearly eleven years have elapsed since the publication of 
M. Rigot’s work on the articulations: yet it has not, up to the 
present moment, received the slightest attention from the Eng¬ 
lish veterinary press, or been considered sufficiently worthy 
of their especial attention in the form of a review. Taking into 
consideration the distino-uished character of the author as an 
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anatomist and a physiologist, it is much to be regretted that this 
one of his earliest literary productions should have so long 
remained buried in oblivion. 
In his preface, M. Rigot distinctly states, that he does not 
offer the “ Treatise on the Articulations’’ as the fruits resulting 
from his own labours, but more as a faithful narration of the 
lectures delivered on that subject by the learned Professor, N. 
Girard, whom the unsparing hand of death had cut off in the 
midst of a career of the most brilliant order, and in the 
very flower of his aofe. Considering the number of vears that 
have rolled past since the death of that highly-talented young 
man, and the existing state of veterinary anatomical literature, 
it must be universally admitted, that the work in question reflects 
a hi O'!! degree of credit on the school from which it has ema- 
nated. It is not, how'ever, entirely devoid of imperfection ; but 
some parts of the subject are treated in such a masterly style. 
