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beJongs to all associations of mankind. We 

 should be grateful to him for he has ex- 

 alted us, he has dignified our profession. 

 Baron Haller commenting on the character 

 and conduct of surgeons in general, ex- 

 presses his surprize, that no one has been 

 particularly eminent in that profession*. To 

 me it would have been surprizing had it 

 been, otherwise, considering the debased 

 condition into which the profession had 

 sunk, and in which it had remained for ages. 

 I admit, that surgery was gradually rising, 

 and would eventually have obtained its 

 proper level amongst sciences; when Mr. 

 Hunter suddenly raised it to its present ele- 



* In chirurgicis, nescio quomodo factum est, ut vix 

 unquam perinde ut in aliis medicinae partibus magnis ali- 

 quis vir eminuerit^ qui late posteros sequaces habuerit. 



(Bibliotheca Chirurgica Init. Torn. 2.) 



