[Valedictory address of Dr. Duncan, in the University of Edinburgh, 29th of April 1825 at the conclusion of the fifty-fifth Winter Session].

  • Andrew Duncan
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1825
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    mination at the stated period, for my Fifty-fifili Winter Ses- sion, as a Teacher of Medicine, at Edinburgh. As far as I am myself able to judge, I have never, even at the earliest pe- riod of my life, delivered Lectures with more distinctness, and I have never been heard, by intelligent and industrious stu- dents, with more attention. In these Lectures, it has been my constant aim to connect a knowledge of the philosophy of the human body, with the cure of those diseases to which it is subjected; and I think I may venture to assert, that, from what has been here de- livered, every attentive hearer may have obtained much use- ful information, which he could not have derived from the most able medical writers, either ancient or modern, without exten- sive reading and deep study. I am not, indeed, ignorant of the contempt with which Lectures on the Theory or Philo- sophy of Medicine, have been treated by impudent and de- signing empiricks, who pretend to say that such Lectures can afford no additional knowledge in the cure of diseases. But I leave you to judge for yourselves respecting the uti- lity of my Lectures, and I am not afraid, that your decision will be unfavourable to Medical Science. For, in treating of the pathology of each important function, I have carefully pointed out not only the general principles on which its dis- eased states are to be combated, but the remedies also, by which the indications of cure are to be fulfilled. I confi- dently trust, therefore, that you will pronounce a favourable judgment, both with respect to the Institutions of IMedicine, as a branch of Medical Education, and of me, as the indivi-
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