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10 about 500 years afterwards, has recorded very concisely, but elegantly, the opinions and practice of Hippocrates, with such improvements, if any, as had been made down to the period at which he wrote.

In the intermediate time, it is true, there were many who acquired celebrity in the Healing Art; but none which it is necessary here to notice, except Herophilus and Erasistratus, who were the first that distinguished themselves as ardent cultivators of Anatomy. Though their works have been lost, there is no reason to doubt the accounts we have of their laborious investigations of the structure of the human body; for the names which they gave to certain parts are those which they still bear. Celsus, speaking of the surgery of Hippocrates, says, ‘* Hac autem pars, �