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lecting them, the writer will be more than 

 repaid for his labors. 



There are presented concise biographies 

 of anatomic masters who lived three hund- 

 red years before the birth oi Christ, as 

 well as those of the preTsent hour — a period 

 of twenty-two liundred years. Nearly 

 every country is represented, from the 

 sunny skies of Italy to the frozen fields of 

 Russia; from the ancient cities of Alexan- 

 dria and Pergamos, in the East, to our own 

 new land in the West. 



It is shown how men have toiled and 

 toiled, and never grew weary of their task. 

 It will be found that men like Bichat, at 

 the early age of thirty-one, and Cohnheim, 

 at fort)'-five, finished their work — wrote 

 numerous books, and evolved wonderful 

 discoveries that benefitted the human 

 race, — and amid honors of wonderful mag- 

 nitude were untimely called away. Again, 

 there are those like Scarpa, who toiled 

 past the allotted three-score years and ten 

 until blindness overtook him, and then, 

 only, he laid aside his task, and patiently 

 waited until death claimed him at eighty 

 years. The celebrated Ruj^sch, at the ad- 

 vanced age of ninety-three years, was still 

 busy in the preparation of his anatomical 

 museum, and when he ceased his life-long 

 work he had made a record equal to 



