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Excerpt from A Medical Discourse, or an Historical Inquiry Into the Ancient and Present State of Medicine: The Substance of Which Was Delivered at Opening the Medical School, in the City of New-York
Befides thefe, we read that there were anciently colleges of the Per/{an Magi, and of the Indian Gymno/ép/yi/ir or Bramirzs; which Inititutions exil't in the Ball at this Day: And the colleges of the Druids, or Semnoibeam both in Gaul'and Britain, are fre quently mentioned in the Roman and other Hifiories. Theic Col leges were inferior to none of the others, either in Antiquity, Regularity, or popular In?uence. Their Learning and Opinions fhall be more particularly confidered hereafter.
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