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35 Gravid Uterus, will ever preserve his name high in the list of those who have eminently contributed to the promotion of anatomical and medical science in this country.

Perceval Pott, many years one of the surgeons of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, was a man of whom England will cver have cause to be proud. Having received a good classical education, as a necessary requisite for the study of any science, he was regularly initiated to that of Surgery. Upon the stable basis of Anatomy, he was enabled by his love of books, his talents for observation and inquiry, his clear conception and_ strong mind, to erect a superstructure of | chirurgical pathology, which must long be admired as the work of no common genius. Although, from

his extensive practical knowledge, no man �