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 of the same kind in Europe, and an appendix containing a description of a number of plants peculiar to America, their uses, virtues, etc., edited by the well-known botanist, John Bart ram. It was printed by Franklin in 1751. Two editions, the first of which was in quarto form, of the lectures of Cullen on Materia Medica appeared in 1775 and 1789; his work on the Practice was reprinted here in 1781. Gregory's Lectures on the Practice were issued in 1773, and Ranby on Gunshot Wounds in 1776; and, at a later period, Benjamin Bell's System of Surgery, edited by Dr. Waters, with notes by Dr. John Jones, which went to a third edition. With the exceptions mentioned these books all issued from the press of Robert Bell, an enterprising publisher, to whom our citizens were under obligations for many valuable reprints. In the art of puffing he seems to have been in no degree behind some of his modern brethren. His advertisements of the work printed in 1775 terminates as follows: "The American physicians who wish to arrive at the top of their profession, are informed that the great Professor Cullen's Lectures on the Materia Medica, containing the very cream of Physic, are now selling by said Bell, in Third Street. Price five dollars."