Lectures on syphilis and on some forms of local disease : affecting principally the organs of generation / by Henry Lee.

Date:
1875
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    Those who have before me occupied this chair have so fully and so ably illustrated the different parts of the Hunterian Museum that I might well shrink from the task of attempting to add anything to their labours. The object of these Lectures, however, as it occurred to me, was to illustrate, as far as may be, the whole of Hunter s labours, and in this view there appeared still some subjects which had engaged his attention, and upon which, in a practical point of view, we might with advantage even now occupy our time. The natural and diseased structures, illustrated by the specimens in our Museum, have been demonstrated in this theatre with an energy and talent that may not be surpassed; but with regard to the naturally fluid parts of the body and their diseases, and especi- ally with regard to its diseased secretions, much still remains to be said. A wide field is here open to us— one which may, perhaps, be less attractive to the strictly logical mind than that in which every step may be demonstrated by preparations, which may be referred to year after year, but still one in which the knowledge gained is wonderfully productive in its practical appli- cations. To the fluid parts of the body Hunter appears to have directed his especial attention, and this is par- ticularly true with regard to the healthy and diseased B ■