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2 our members the singular and edifying example of that great Physiologist and Surgeon, by whose pre-eminent and well directed talent, and persevering industry, Chirurgical Science was more essentially advanced, than it had been by any other individual.

And here it may be observed, that the memorial of persons emiment for their talents, and meritorious for their success- ful and useful application of them, has ever been a conspicuous feature in civilized society. In the short account which is left us of the Antediluvian World, Jabel, the father of pasturage, Jubal, the father of instrumental music, and Tubal-Cain, the father of metallurgy, are distinguished as the first, or principal. cultivators, of �