On impurities and mistakes / by T. Lauder Brunton.

  • Brunton, Thomas Lauder, Sir, 1844-1916.
Date:
1892
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Credit: On impurities and mistakes / by T. Lauder Brunton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    [Reprinted from the Pharmaobutical Journal, December 24, 1892.] OX IMPURITIES AND MISTAKES. BY T. LAUDER BRUNTON, M.D., F.R.S. Gentlemen,—I must begin to-night not only with thanks but with an apology. With thanks for your doing me the honour of asking me to address you, and with an apology for the nature of the address. My subject ought to be “ Impurities and Mistakes,” but when I came to consider the matter I found that I had committed myself a very common mistake, one that we all of us have probably committed in our childhood, but that we certainly ought to avoid in our maturer years. It is that of trying to teach my grandmother to suck eggs, of attempting to address you on a subject that you knew much more about than I. If anything more had been needed to convince me of my folly it would have been the “ Ordo rerum ” which Mr. Martin- dale has kindly sent to me. I felt at first in- clined to write and ask your President to allow me to c ange the subject of my paper, but I think that, as a rule, it is a good thing when you have got into a diffi- culty to face it fairly and not to evade it, unless you are driven to do so by dire necessity. Moreover, it seems to me that there are three classes of people in the world—those who learn by their own mistakes — these are the ordinary people—those who learn not only from their own mistakes but by the mistakes of B