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gist Nishikawa and the anatomist Taguchi should be 

 mentioned; 1 Armenian (Alcana Mosali, who in the thir- 

 teenth century wrote a treatise on the anatomy and dis- 

 eases of the eye, chiefly compiled from Arabian, Chaldean, 

 Jewish, Greek and other sources) ; 1 Hungarian, 1 Polish, 

 1 South American (Florentine Ameghino, 1854-1911, a 

 student of vertebrate paleontology, is the only represen- 

 tative of the large South American continent in the list. 

 Ameghino 's attainments in vertebrate paleontology en- 

 title him to a high place among the anatomists of the 

 world); 1 Turk (Schanzi Zadeh Mehemmed Ataullah, a 

 Turkish physician, who after completing his studies in 

 Italy, published, in 1820, a work on human anatomy, in 

 folio, illustrated with 56 copper plates) ; 2 East Indians 

 (Atreya, a physician, who was a teadher in the Taxila 

 University in the sixth century b.c. He wrote an osteol- 

 ogy^, which was later edited by one of his students, Cha- 

 raka. Susruta, an East Indian surgeon also deserves 

 mention), 2 Bulgarians, 3 Flemish (of whom the greatest 

 was Ve&alius), 4 Romans (none of them men of original- 

 ity), 5 Russians, 5 Belgians, 7 Irish, 7 Swedish, 7 Span- 

 ish, 7 Bohemians, 9 Arabians (Abdallatif, Albucasis, Avi- 

 cenna and others), 11 Scottish, 12 Danish, 16 Swiss, 17 

 Austrians, 22 Greek, 36 American, 40 Dutch, 77 English, 

 78 Italian, 127 French and 240 Germans, making a total of 

 seven hundred and thirty-six. The citizenship of many 

 ;)f the men studied has been hard to determine on ac- 

 count of the migration of teachers from country to coun- 

 try, which in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth 

 centuries has been very common ; but the above is a fair 

 representation of the proper distribution of the men who 

 have developed anatomy. 



More than twenty-five professions are represented by 

 the men who have been given a place in the list. In at- 

 t riipting to decide the position of a man in the following 

 rlicine it is not always easy, on account of the varied in- 

 i csts of some of them, to place them properly. Should 

 Al})recht von Haller, for instance, be regarded as an anato- 



