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23 soon appeared, who shed lustre upon all the sciences. The same powerful and beneficent patronage being continued, and never 5o extensively as during the present reign, the cause of literature, of philosophy, and of general science has progressively advanced down to this day. At a time that all other arts and sciences were cultivated with a degree of enthusiastic ardour, it was not to be supposed that those in which life, health, and comfort are immediately concerned,. should not be properly appreciated. Accordingly, the great names of Harvey, Wiseman, Cheselden; of the Douglases, the Monros, Nichols, William Hunter, Hewson, Cleghorn, Sharp, Hawkins, Gunning, Bromfield; of Else, Warner, Pott, and very many others, present themselves to our admiration �