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From the writings of Hippocrates we find; that operative Surgery had, by his time, made considerable progress; © and it.is also evident, from that clause in his oath, by which he abjured. cutting for the stone; not only that .such an operation was then performed, but also that there were Surgeons employed for this, and probably, for other similar purposes, even in Greece, who were distinct from the physicians of his family. Pythagoras had employed his pupils in the dissection of animals; and Alemzeon, of Croton, who was one of them, is recorded as the first who ventured to amputate a limb �