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 those imperfections under which science continued to labour, till after the restoration of learning in Europe.

When this important revolution had taken place, and the invention of printing had supplied a more ready, and more certain way, of promulgating and preserving the information that was acquired, no branch of knowledge appears to have been more speedily and effectually benefited, than Medicine. Many diligent labourers in Anatomy arose, their discoveries were quickly made known, and we may trace a rapid progress in this first requisite for the substantial improvement of Surgery, in the successive works of Mundini, Vesalius, Fallopius, Eustachius, Fabricius, Malpighi, and others.