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7 entertained from the consideration of the great care which he has manifested in the collection of facts, and of the truth with which he has detailed them—of his manly independence of mind displayed in the rejection of the largest fee that was ever offered to a medical man, from the most potent prince, but who was accounted the enemy of Greece —of the extraordinary talent which he possessed of describing what he saw (the Facies Hippocratica, as it will ever be called, being the most expressive representation that so few words could convey}|—and of his being well acquainted with all the science of the time in which he lived. His works are admired by scholars, for the classical purity of style in which they are written-—by physicians, for the great store of medical infor-