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 TO

THE PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS

ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS

LONDON.

To revive the almost forgotten Services of their Founder in the cause of Ancient Literature, and to inculcate the necessity of its more extensive Cultivation, to prevent the fall of their Art from the honourable station to which it was raised by his example, their Colleague dedicates these Memoirs.