ting them in urns, and then into tombs; and translating them, which was not to be done without the authority of the pontiffs. Among the ancients, the bones of travellers and soldiers dying in foreign countries were brought home to be buried; till, by an express senatus-consult, made during the Italic war, it was prohibited, and the bodies of soldiers ordered to be buried where they died.

The Romans had a peculiar deity, under the denomination of Osilago, to whom the care of the induration and knitting of the human bones was committed, and who on that account was an object of worship by all women in a certain situation.

Fossil or Petrified Bones. See Geology.or Bonnet, Theophilus, an eminent physician, born at Geneva on the 5th of March 1620. He took his degree in physic in 1643, after having studied with distinction in the schools of his own country, and in the most celebrated foreign universities; and then applied himself to the practice of his profession, in which he acquired great reputation. But being seized with deafness, he found it necessary to retire from business; which gave him leisure to collect all the observations he had made during a practice of forty years. But his principal title to distinction is rather as a medical writer than a practitioner, and as having in some measure created pathological anatomy, which Morgagni afterwards illustrated. His works are, 1. Mercurius Comptalitius, Geneva, 1682, folio; 2. Zodiacus Medico-Gallicus, without date; 3. Medicina Septentrionalis Collatitia, Geneva, 1684 and 1686, 2 vols., folio; 4. Polyanties, sive Thesaurus Medico-Practicus, Geneva, 1690, 1691, 1693, 3 vols., folio; 5. Theodori Tur-queti de Mayerne Tractatus de Arthritide, Geneva, 1671, 1674, 12mo, translated from the French; 6. Jacobi Ro-chaullii Tractatus Physicus, Geneva, 1674, 8vo, also a translation; and, 7. Bibliotheca de Médecine et de Chirurgie, Geneva, 1670, 4 vols., printed separately, and being a compilation of surgical observations.