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Presented to the Section on Obstetrics and Gynæcology of American Medical Association, June, 1883.]
A short time since I was presented by my friend Dr. Dickinson with a Latin folio edition of all the extant works of the two most valuable Greek medical compilers, Oribasius and Ætius. The book itself is some 300 years old, and in a good state of preservation —never having been read, and though published only a little over 100 years after the invention of printing, could scarcely be excelled in mechanical execution at the present day. But any value that might be attached to this is utterly lost in the priceless value of its contents.
Oribasius, a learned Greek physician of the fourth century, was court physician to the Emperor Julian, and wrote his great work, the Hebdomekontabiblos or Seventy Volumes—a compilation of all that was known of medicine, at the order of Julian, who