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8 no favourable promise to such an attempt, had it been thought of. Cuttings of various sorts, were indeed practised by - some nations, as religious, or superstitious rites; but it is exceedingly doubtful if the knife were purposcly employed as a remedy, before the time of AEsculapius. Of this distinguished personage, it is said by Pindar, in his third Pythian Ode, that “he cured those who were affected with ulcers of spontaneous origin ; those who were wounded by the polished brass, or the far-thrown stone; and those who suffered by the summcr’s heat, or the winter's cold; curing some by incantations, and others by medicines; restormg some to health, or straitness, by remedies bound round the diseased members, and �