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REVIEW. 
Rb VIEW, 
ANATOMICAL TECHNOLOGY AS APPLIED TO THE DOMESTIC CAT. 
An Introduction to Human, Veterinary and Comparative Anatomy; by Burt 
G. Wilder, B.S., M.D., Professor of Physiology, Comparative Anatomy and 
Zoology in Cornell University, and of Physiology in the Medical School of 
Maine, Member of the American Neurological Association, Fellow of the 
American Association for tlie Advancement of Science, etc.; and Simon H. 
Gage, B.S., Assistant Professor of Physiology and Lecturer on Microscopical 
Technology in Cornell University, Fellow of the American Association for 
the Advancement of Science, etc. New York and Chicago : A. S. Barnes 
& Co., 1882. 
This work must fill an important place in anatomical litera¬ 
ture. It has grown, as the authors tell us in the preface, out of 
the ascertained needs of students preparing for practical work in 
Human, Veterinary or Comparative Anatomy, and its methods 
have stood the practical test of years in the anatomical laboratory 
of Cornell University. It 1 las the great advantage, for the beginner, 
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of assuming no previous knowledge of the science, but, giving full 
instructions as to the instruments and methods, it furnishes the 
student with the means of pursuing his studies in private, and 
upon a subject which is at once cheaply and universally obtain¬ 
able—the domestic cat. The work does not aim at giving a com- 
plete descriptive anatomy of the cat; in place of this, it instructs 
in the best method of dissection and study for each organ or 
region, and in a sufficient number of examples goes into detail, so 
that the student feels that he is well panoplied for the further in¬ 
telligent dissection of the same animal or of any other. And the 
special advantage is, that it aims to introduce a knowledge of the 
more complex structures, by first laying a foundation in the more 
typical or simple. Thus in the case of the brain, which medical 
students usually begin to study on the human subject, cutting the 
organ in slices from above downward, and learning with the 
greatest effort and disgust a series of barbarous names for objects 
appearing in succession and bearing certain relations to each other, 
our authors adopt the more rational plan of presenting first the 
simple amphibian brain, where there but a few of the more im¬ 
portant and constant cerebral ganglia clustered round the cephalic 
