same lady caught cold, and was apparently very ill, but without fever. The
monkey, as far as might be judged from his appearance, seemed to condole
with his sick mistress, and to understand the difference of her distempers,
by the confidence with which he remained in attendance upon her.

It has even been said, that the sagacity of some dogs has led them to
prognosticate the fatal termination of disease. "Whilst I lived at Ripon,"
says a learned doctor, "I took notice of a little dog, of a chestnut
colour, that very often boded the death of sick persons, without being
once, for aught I could learn, mistaken. Every time he barked in the night
under the windows of any one whose sickness did not even appear dangerous,
it happened, infallibly, that the sick person died that week. I knew also,"
observes the same author, "a man bit by a mad dog, who could distinguish
his friends at a considerable distance by the smell, before even he could
distinguish them by sight."

So early as the second century, the supplying the deficiency of a lost nose
became an object of professional consideration; and the Greeks gave the
name [Greek: Kolobhômata], to those who required such an operation.
Taliacotius was the first who treated it scientifically; and, from his
time, the art of Addition became one of the branches of surgery; and, under
the title _"De Decoratione,"_ formed a very interesting chapter.

Although Taliacotius has the credit of bringing the art of nose-making into
fashion, and being the first to write on the mode and manner of performing
the operation, yet it appears that one Branca had been in the habit of
performing it long before, as we learn from an ancient author, whose name
must, in this instance, be considered as the highest authority, being no
less a person than NOSORENUS.