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Personal Communication Dr. H. P. Smith, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York. 

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We thank Ernie Alieva, Merrie Bergmann, and Jay Garfield of Smith College, and Jim Hendrickson of Brandeis University for helpful comments on an earlier draft of this chapter. We also thank Smith student Sorina Chircu for translating an earlier article that we had unearthed on the philosophical implications of chemical synthesis from the original Romanian. 

Jeffry L. Ramsey holds a B.A. and an M.S. in chemistry and a Ph.D. in the conceptual foundations of science from the University of Chicago. He was assistant professor of philosophy at Oregon State University, Corvallis, and is now at Smith College. His research focuses on how scientists view questions about theory construction, explanation, and reduction when they are faced with problems that are insoluble in practice or in principle (e.g., in the area of semiempirical models). He is also interested in questions of conceptual analysis as they arise in the chemical sciences (e.g., the case of shape). His essays have appeared in Philosophy of Science, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, and Synthese, among other journals. 

L. Cohn-Haft. 1956. The Public Physicians of Ancient Greece. Northampton Mass., Department of History of Smith College. 

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