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8. The Account of the Life, Lectures, and Writings, of

Dr. Cul- len, by Dr. Joins THOMSON, is a work of importance, of which only the first volume is published. This biography is in fact the history of medical science during the life of CULLEN ; at which time it made great strides, and for part of its progress was indebted to the gifted man whose name presides over this work. When the second volume appears, if not before, we shall enter more mi- nutely into the description of its claims.