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t)us publications of Suyef, Irodionof, Kotoftzof, 

 and Hackman, are all conspicuous and useful. 



A little more than thirty years ago, the science 

 of Medicine was wholly uncultivated in Russia. 

 It is said, that scarcely three books had been pub- 

 lished on this subject in the whole empire, antece- 

 dently to the year 1770. Since that period, the 

 progress of medical knowledge has been astonish- 

 ingly great, and the number of medical publica- 

 tions remarkably increased. To Professor Ambo- 

 dick, his countrymen are indebted for valuable 

 publications on anatomy, physiology, materia me- 

 dica, and obstetrics, besides translations of some 

 important works on different branches of the heal- 

 ing art. The medical works of Schumliansky, 

 Tichorsky, Samoilovitch, and Terekhofsky, 

 both original compositions and translations, are 

 also mentioned with applause by the literary his- 

 torians of that country. It is, moreover, proper 

 to take notice, that several foreigners of distinc- 

 tion have published, on various medical subjects, 

 in the Russian language. The names of Bacher- 

 acht, Vien, Pektn, Uhden, Mohrenheim, and 

 Ellisen, belong to this list, and are represented 

 as holding a respectable station in the public opi- 

 nion at Petersburgh. 



In Historical composition, Russia has lately 

 produced some specimens worthy of notice. The 

 History of Russia, by Schtscherbatof, is said to 

 hold the first place in the catalogue. Besides this, 

 the various productions of Gollikof, Tumansky, 

 Tschulkof, Bogdanovitch, and Vagonof, are 

 generally mentioned among the respectable works 

 of this class. In Poetry, it was before observed, 

 that Russia had given birth to works of consider- 

 able merit; and also that they were almost wholly 

 the productions of the eighteenth century. The 

 Services rendered to this branch of literature by 



