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14 culeated and extolled as a chief perfection’ of human ‘nature; were but little favourable to the advancement of Surgery in Rome. It‘was not till the’ time of Julius Ceesar that its professors: there emerged above a state of servile degradation. Many Surgeons: of merit must, however; have’ flourished ;~and: there were some whom Celsus has called non mediocres professores, by whom various improvements ‘in practice were introduced. But in the time of Celsus,‘as for a long period afterward, Surgery could boast of nothing beyond an empirical character: nor, except: what is-to*be found -in-the work which he himself composed, do the records of that wonderful state furnish �