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ARTIFICIAL ANATOMY. It is well known
that limitations Of the human subject, for
anatomical study, have been made in wax
hitherto, in consequence OF its flexibity.
These limitations, however striking and
correct, could only present the surface of
lobjects they could not give the internal
details, which are still more necessary to


the study; they were better fitted for the
purposes of museum than theatre OF
ANATOMY. M. Auroux. young and clever


French physician. has made an astonishing


improvement in those imitations.-With


a composition resemling paste-board, he
has been enabled to construct complete


bodies, in which all the organs, the minu-


test details of external conformation, are


accuratel y represented Theexterior parts


are unshipped easily, and according to the
rules generally observed in dissection.
They give place to the..interior parts,


which in their turn can be removed with


similar facility. Thus the human body can
be decomposed into a thousand different
pieces, which, as they are regularly mum
bered, can be again reunited to each other
Two advantages are thus obtained over thu
,,|ordinary method-the disgust inseparabl'
I from the dissection of dead bodies is avoid
!, ed; and the pupil, by re-composing thu
body, may give more perfect krowledg


of its individual points. The only,objec
:, tions to Nj. Auroux,s invention is, tina
= the shades of colour are more perfectly re
a presented by the wax than by his compost
= ton; but this obstacle may be surmonn'
ed and, for the rest, his imitation is pei
- feet. The smallest organs. the nerves, tn
. . muscles. the veins, and all the vessels, ar
- represented with rigid accuracy. Th
I invention admits of being applied to man
:. ! useful and interesting purposes ofanaton
n ical pathology.