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benefit in the Adoption of the plan proposed, that we would 

 cordially second its trial, and we earnestly recommend it, 

 though our idea is, that, even if the days of Paracelsus were 

 to come over again, and men were to be subject to the dis- 

 gusting pharmacy of his era, they would rather submit tosuch 

 abominations than lend a hand, if it touched their pockets, to 

 assist by their personal sacrifices, even in so interesting a 

 sphere of congenial enquiry, in strengthening the hands of the 

 truly anxious and scientific men to whom the modern art of 

 healing has been committed. So long as science and enquiries 

 not bearing a discount are concerned, all the eloquence of the 

 world cannot do much. " No imparta" says Nino, in the 

 Moorish Letters, " Pedro Fern and cs siempre sera Pedro Per- 

 nandesr Nevertheless we quote Dr. Conolly's final sentence, 

 with every expression of sympathy and concurrence : — " I can- 

 not doubt that in each county of England and Scotland there 

 will be found a sufficient number of well-informed, public- 

 spirited, and influential individuals, to insure the success of 

 an undertaking that must, in its progress, reflect both advan- 

 tage and honour on the country at large." Let the trial be 

 made forthwith, and good luck attend it ! 



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 progress that has of late years been made in the advancement 

 of all branches of science; and in no branch has this progress 

 been more signally displayed than in the science of teratology 

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teresting subjects have been fertile sources of controversy and 

 speculation to naturalists .and philosophers of all ages and 

 nations, and have engaged the attention of many of the most 

 talented and enlightened of the human race, from the days of 

 Aristotle, the father of natural history, down to the present 

 time ; yet they are subjects which, until the commencement 

 of the last century, continued involved in the darkest obscurity, 

 and of which, during the immense lapse of time that preceded 

 this period, mankind knew no more than they now know of 

 the inhabitants of Jupiter or Saturn. History affords abund- 

 ant evidence of this fact. If we revert to the times of the 

 Greeks and Romans, those monopolists of civilisation, and 

 of all the existing knowledge of their day, we shall find the 



