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30 blaze, from intellectual exertion, soon fol- lowed to enlighten the world. Under the influence and generous protection of wise and equal laws, every art, every science, every useful profession and vocation flourished, and will for ever flourish, whilst mankind shall continue sensible of the causes of their prosperity.

Were not the limits of this annual Com- memoration necessarily confined, it would be highly gratifying to enumerate some of the many discoveries in Anatomy, and the im- provements in the practice of Surgery, which were made by the great men of those days, as well as by our immediate predecessors. But as this has already been, in part, done on former years from this Chair, and as ample justice may confidently be expected on future �