HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE, - Horntip

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learned phyfician. The writings of your father
already publifhed upon the Oath of Hippocrates,
and the Life of Mecxnas, prove how great a man he
was. You give a promifing earneft to poilerity what
a Ion you are, by publifhing to the world your father's
lucubrations now in your hands, and worthy the molt
curious eye, taking care to increafe them with your
own excellent additions. Among the vaft compafs of
your father's learning, and his more ferious ftudies, he
fometimes defcended to things of lefs moment, and
'wrote, at the inftance of the great Chriftianus Caffius
(whofe memory will be alway grateful to me), a fhort
differtation, colleEted from antiquity, of the medicinal
ufe of flogging. This treatife my bookfeller, excited
by the uncommonnefs of the fubjee-t, had a mind to
reprint, and defired fome additions to it from me.
I referred him to you, the fon of the author, Profeffor
of Phyfic in the Univerfity of Juliers, and, by the
example of your father, converfant in all kind of
literature and antiquity, as being more nearly con-
cerned in the reputation of your father's writings, and
it not being to be expeEted that a book which ihines
fo much in the contents of its author fhould receive
the leaft ornament from my hand. But, although
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