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20 In Holland, Swammerdam, Bidloo, Nuck, Ruysch.

In Brabant, Vesalius.

To these might be added many hundreds whose labours in Anatomy have greatly as- sisted the inquiries of their successors. ‘Their physiological reasoning, It Is true, was gene- rally incorrect and even whimsical ; but the subject was to them comparatively new; and whatever errors they may have fallen into, are abundantly compensated by thew anato- mical researches and discoveries.

Let it not be imagined that whilst the Con- tinent could boast the great names just men- tioned, the British isles were without their luminaries in the various departments of sci- ence. In the cultivation of Anatomy and other branches of the Healing Art, it is true, that the �