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deprived of the use of his limbs ; and yet, in defiance of mental 

 agony and bodily pain, he continued, and apparently with undi- 

 minished vigour, his philosophic labours. The frightful disease 

 he laboured under was caught at Wilna, in one of those dismal, 

 cold, and damp apartments so often used for anatomical pur- 

 poses. No biography of this remarkable man, as far as we 

 know, has hitherto appeared. He was born at Buchsweiller, in 

 Alsace, at that time belonging to Hesse Darmstadt. During the 

 revolution he emigrated with his father, an officer in the Hessian 

 service, to Darmstadt, — studied at Jena, and afterwards was 

 appointed Professor of Veterinary Medicine in the University of 

 Wilna, of which, for twenty years, he was a principal ornament. 

 In the year 1818 he returned to Germany, on a visit to his rela- 

 tions and friends at Jena, Weimar, and Darmstadt, with the 

 title of University Counsellor, and Knight of the order of 

 Wladmir. On his return, he took with him, from Jena, an 

 engraver, Lehman, to engrave the plates from his own draw- 

 ings, for his great work, De Anatomia Test. Europ. Fol. for 

 in Wilna there were no engravers, and the engraved plates 

 had to be sent to Petersburgh to be cast off. These inconve- 

 - niences occasioned an expence of many thousand dollars, for 

 which he received no return, as in the year 1825, fifty copies 

 only of the work had sold. Six copies were sent to Britain ; 

 and of these, one copy reached Edinburgh. 



26. Royal Medal presented to Mr Charles Bell. — Our distin- 

 guished countryman Charles Bell, whose very important and 

 beautiful discoveries in regard to the nervous system have raised 

 him to the highest rank as an original and profound anatomist 

 and physiologist, has just received from the Royal Society of 

 London the first royal medal, as a testimony of the important 

 services he has rendered to .science by his discoveries. 



27. Anatomical, Physiological, and Pathological Researches, in 

 regard to Veins. — M. Dupuytren has just made a very favour- 

 able report to the French Institute, in regard to M. Breschet's 

 work on the veins of the bones. The veins of bones were entirely 

 unknown about twenty years ago ; at least they were only ad- 

 mitted as a necessary consequence of the laws of organization, for 

 no facts or researches had then proved their existence. It was 



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