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reasonably be ascribed. That he could write with 

 accuracy and elegance, is sufficiently evident from 

 the dedication, as well as many other portions of his 

 great work on fishes. A collection of his medical 

 writings was published in 1583, and soon went 

 through three different editions, which appeared re- 

 spectively at Frankfort, Montpellier, and Geneva. 

 The same work, with the addition of several new 

 articles, was published in 1628 by J. Croquer, 

 under the title of " Opera omnia medica, nunc ab 

 infinitis quibus antea scatebant mendis, studio et 

 opera Joannis Croqueri, Poloni, repurgata, et in 

 gratiam Medicine Studiosorum nitori suo restituta. 

 Geneva 1628, 8vo." The principal treatise in this 

 work is entitled e Methodus Curandi morbos,' and 

 has been commended for its correct description of 

 the symptoms of diseases, and its elegant and dis- 

 tinctly expressed formulas. There is another, 4 De 

 morbo Italico/ which was previously published at 

 Venice (1567) in folio : this has likewise been 

 translated into French. Articles ' De dignoscendis 

 morbis,' ' De febribus,' ' De medicamentis inter- 

 nis et externis,' ' De Pharmacopolarum officina,' 

 c De fucis/ ' Introductio ad Praxin,' ' De Urinis,' 

 ' Consilia medica,' form the remaining contents of 

 the volume. As Rondelet's other works, relating to 

 medical subjects, are but few in number, it may be 

 as well to enumerate them in this place. A treatise 

 " De ponderibus, seu justa quantitate et proportione 

 medieamentorum," appeared at Padua in 1556, and 

 has frequently been reprinted along with others on 



