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it is accordingly during researches that have been made in this 
direction that most of the material for the present purpose has 
been gleaned. 
A brief statement of the numismatic bibliography relating to 
“natural science may precede further details. It may be classi¬ 
fied as follows: those of the list that are in my library are 
marked with an asterisk. 1 
I. Numismatic works relating to the medals of natural scien¬ 
tists. 
a. Those relative to the ancient deities of health and heal¬ 
ing, who were the patrons of natural science as well. 
Bose, C\ Groseus de. Dissertation sur le culte que les an- 
ciens ont rendu a la Deesse (de la) Sante ; on y a joint les 
medailles (etc.), qui ont rapport a cette matiere. Paris, 1705, 8°. 
"‘The above Latinized. Dissertatio de Cultv quo Salvtem 
Deam prosecvti svnt Veteres. Cui additi sunt numi (etc.), 
idem argumentum spectantia. (With plates.) In Christoph. 
Woltereck, Electa Rei Nvmariae (etc.). Hamburg, 1709, 4 0 , 
P- 2 3 - 
Burckhard, J. H. Commentatio de diis hominibusque serva- 
toribus ex numis (etc.). Helmstadt, 1737, 4 0 . 
Ebelt, Carl Heinrich. De Valetudine inter deas a pagana 
gente relata. Plavia, 1751, 4 0 . 
Gunzius, Justus Gottofredus. Dissertatio qua J wtiouyias in 
sacris Aesculapii succincte exponitur (coins of Pergamena, p. 
24). Leipsic, 1737, 4 0 . This is also in J. C. Gli. Ackermann, 
Opuscula ad medicinae historiam pertinentia. Nuremberg, 1797, 
8* (pp. 49-156). 
* But a portion of the works now catalogued as w ithin their dates, were 
known to *Lipsius, 1800 (Bibliotheca numaria usque ad finem seculi XVIII, 
leipsic), and *Leitzman, 1867 (Yerzeichniss sammtlicher in dem Zeitraume 
1800 bis 1S66 erschiencn Schriften liber Munzkiinde, Weissensee). 
