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...properly so called." " It is, indeed," says Pliny, in his address to the Emperor Vespasian, " no easytask to give novelty to what is old, and authority to what...peculiar nature. It is sufficiently honourable and gloiious to have been willing even to make the attempt, although it should prove unsuccessful." PHYSIOLOGICAL...