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 But the labours of these and many succeeding anatomists, served more to advance Surgery as an art, than as a science. We are obliged to confess, that it was too long unconnected with general philosophy, and a sound physiology. It became crowded with rules, but it was not proportionably enlightened by principles, till that individual was raised up, whose birth and usefulness we now commemorate. I think, therefore, that I shall approach more directly to the object of our present meeting, if, leaving a mere historical notice of deserving individuals, or improvements in particular departments of practice, I briefly review those discoveries and changes, by the nature and co-efficiency of which, Surgery has at