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24 and gratitude, as men who have materially contributed to their country’s honour.

In the present short sketch it would be impracticable to do justice to those eminent characters, or to particularize their respective © contributions in promotion of the Healing Art, by their anatomical discoveries and by their chirurgical observations.

Early in the eighteenth century, schools of anatomy were opened in London, pupils began to attend the practice of the hospitals, and thus scientifically to acquire a knowledge of their profession. The advantages of this the only true method of obtaining the requisite information, became apparent, and in the course of a few years, almost every hospital in London became a school, at which not only Anatomy, but every other branch of medical �