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chiropodists, bonesetters, oculists and opticians. Physic has special divisions for the diseases of special classes of patients, who are served by veterinarians, gynecologists, infantile physicians, military surgeons, naval surgeons, etc. There are also special sciences of special classes of diseases professed by neurologists and psiphiatrics, dermatologists, genitourinary physicians, otologists, specialists for tuberculosis, for cancer, for diseases of digestion. There are also branches relating to special parts of the physician's business, as diagnostic, legal-medicine, etc.

The sciences ministering to the Gust-Instinct usually consider chiefly the pleasures of the table. The general science of these pleasures is Gastronomy, a word borrowed, of course, from the French, being introduced in 1800 by Berehvux, who defines it in these lines, the title of his poem being 'La gastronomie':

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