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12 features of the country, of which he then gives a correct map for the information of mankind. This has been done by Celsus. Possessing such general science and profound learning, he was qualificd to survey, and to mark the precise limits to which human knowledge had arrived in certain arts; and of the state of Surgery down to his day, he has given us a map, upon a very small scale, it is true, which is as much to be admired for its correctness, as for the elegant manner in which it is executed.

Here terminates the short notice of the first great zera in the history of our Art.

From whence shall the commencement of the second be dated? The answer to this ques- tion must be the avowal of a truth, the most degrading and humiliating to mankind that is �