LICETUS, a celebrated physician of Italy, was born at Rappollo, in the state of Genoa, in the year 1577. He came into the world in the seventh month; but his father, an ingenious physician, wrapped him up in cotton, and nurtured him so carefully that he lived to be seventy-seven
1 The publication of the Ottoman States Gazette, under the title of Takwimi Waka'i, or Tables of Events, has proceeded with great spirit since its first appearance in January 1832, and contains a variety of articles which throw considerable light on the nature of the reforms which are in progress throughout every department of the state. In this respect, the Takwimi Waka'i is a more interesting paper than the Moniteur Ottoman, which is by no means the French original of the former, as the public may perhaps have been led to conclude.
2 Travels in Nubia, p. lxxviii.
3 Life of the Right Hon. Sir James Mackintosh, vol. ii. p. 85, London, 1836, 8vo, 2d edition.
years of age. He was trained with great care, became a distinguished man in his profession, and was the author of a great number of works, particularly one De Monstris. He was professor of philosophy and physic at Padua, where he died in the year 1655.