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34 hearing him would amply testify. He had a happy manner, peculiarly his own, of introducing anecdotes that were well adapted to fix the attention of his auditors, and to renew their recollection of what he was describing. His language was pleasing, clear, and familiar; and it was also beautifully correct. Upon the whole, it may justly be said of William Hunter, that as a public teacher of anatomy, no man had equalled him; and he must be a prodigy indeed by whom he shall ever be surpassed. THis talents, however, were displayed not only in the dissecting room and the theatre, but to the world at large, through the medium of the press; and his ‘* Medical Commentaries ;”’ his papers in the ‘‘ Medical Observations and Inquiries ;”’

and, above all, his splendid work on the �