On the Doctrines of Hippocrates and Plato, Vol. I

who especially have had the benefit of the distinguished care of a very close friend, B. Dombart, professor at the Erlangen gymnasium; rather, it happened by some unknown fault of the machine that the accent marks, rightly and fully applied by the typesetters and correctors, vanished in many copies.

But enough has already been said about these matters, lest I appear to praise or excuse myself ambitiously. It remains for me to follow this volume, adorned in most elegant form by a most noble bookseller, and which will be followed after a short interval by another containing the explanation, with auspicious prayers, wishing for nothing more than that through my work, such as it is, many philologists may be excited to the studies of Galen, bringing more fruit to philology than anyone might think.

Given at Bonsidelia in the month of September, 1874.