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 was a man of learning and strong abilities, who assisted materially in encouraging medical science among us, as well by the formation of a library rich in the most valuable and rare works relating to it and kindred subjects, as in the countenance afforded by him to anatomical pursuits. It was under his auspices, and in a building belonging to him, that Dr. Cadwalader first made his anatomical demonstrations—a use, so strong in those days was the feeling against dissections, to which few would have been found willing to appropriate their property. His translations of Cicero "On Old Age," and Cato's "Distichs," were among the first translations from the classics made on this Continent. Besides these, he was the author of a scientific work entitled, "Experimenta et Meletemata de Plantarum Generatione;" or, Experiments on Indian Corn, with his observations arising there from on the Generation of Plants. This was published at Leyden in Latin in 1739, and was afterwards, in 1747, republished in London, with an English version on the opposite page, by Dr. Fothergill.

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