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From the Departments of Anatomy and the History of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine. Read 17 October 1952 before the Beaumont Medical Club. The author is indebted to Professor G. Lincoln Hendrickson of Yale University for translating two passages and to the reference staffs of the Medical Library and Sterling Library for assistance in locating much material.